Monitoring officers should be allowed to withhold councillors’ home addresses from public registers to help tackle rising levels of abuse and hate, Smith Square has said.
A Local Government Association (LGA) briefing ahead of a 11 January Parliamentary debate on standards in public life urges ministers to amend the Localism Act 2011 to protect elected politicians.
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