2009-07-23T12:39:23Z <p><a href="http://www.jamesrb.co.uk/?p=256">UPDATE: Read JamesRB's report on the results of the Birmingham City Council reply</a></p> <p> "Local councils were authorised to conduct nearly 5,000 "directed surveillance" missions in the year to the end of March," <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/21/local-authorities-spy-on-public">according to Sir Christopher Rose, the chief surveillance commissioner</a>. How many of these were done by councils in the Midlands? Birmingham City Council, for example, had the most in 2008 - how did they react to that? </p> 0 false 57 15 live 2009-07-23T12:49:17Z How much 'covert surveillance' of individuals has been conducted by Midlands councils? http://bit.ly/w1Vxf 2009-08-06T21:13:32Z 17 0