{"id":1203,"date":"2008-01-12T21:07:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T21:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/12\/home-office-consultation-managing-protest-around-parliament\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T21:07:44","slug":"home-office-consultation-managing-protest-around-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/1203","title":{"rendered":"Home Office Consultation: Managing Protest Around Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The consultation paper Managing Protest around Parliament stems from a Governance of Britain green paper in which the government committed to consulting on the sections of the <strong>Serious Organised Crime and Police Act<\/strong> covering demonstrations near Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>This consultation takes another look at sections 132-138 of that act, and explores whether there is another way to address the situation that would both uphold the right to protest while also giving police the powers they need to keep the peace.<\/p>\n<p>This consultation will close on 17 January 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homeoffice.gov.uk\/documents\/cons-2007-managing-protest\" rel=\"noopener\">Home Office Consultation: Managing Protest Around Parliament<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homeoffice.gov.uk\/documents\/cons-2007-managing-protest?view=Binary\" rel=\"noopener\">Managing Protest Around Parliament [PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.repeal-socpa.info\" rel=\"noopener\">Repeal-socpa : Website for information about initiatives to repeal the severe restrictions on freedom to protest contained in the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and their take on the consultation at:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.repeal-socpa.info\/consultation.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.repeal-socpa.info\/consultation.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consultation paper Managing Protest around Parliament stems from a Governance of Britain green paper in which the government committed to consulting on the sections of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act covering demonstrations near Parliament. This consultation takes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/1203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}