During this year's annual inspection of parish council accounts, the Clerk prompted by the parish council chairman who had just arrived at the inspection ('to protect the clerk'), suddenly produced from their bag and read out to me - and the person accompanying me - an email they had sent to our county council highways officer naming me about an issue about poor work carried out on a road I'd raised at the parish council meeting the night before. The Clerk then read out the response from the highways officerr which also named me. The Clerk and Chairman then both accused me of being a liar which I refuted. I asked for a copy of the two emails but was told this wasn't going to happen. Not only was this intrusion, accusation and publication verbally of these emails by the Clerk and Chairman into a private session by two members of the public who had quite properly arranged to inspect the council's accounts during the set period extremely rude and offensive, it had nothing to do with our inspection session, and was I believe designed to discredit and demean me in the eyes of the person accompanying me, who had never before met either the Clerk or the Chairman, who seemed bent on disrupting the session and behaving in a deeply uncivil and vile manner, humiliating and embarrassing to both me and my companion. This interruption and the manner in which it was orchestrated and managed by the Clerk and Chairman put an end to our legitimate inspection session, having not had the time or opportunity to inspect all the documents we wished to see. It left both of us both bewildered and concerned that the Clerk, colluding with the Chairman of the parish council had not only interferred with our legal right to inspect all the annual accounts documents but also made false allegations and used the time for our inspection to attack me personally and read from emails that I had no prior knowledge or and have still not seen. I wish to see the emails as I would like to pursue the matter with the Monitoriing Officer who needs all the documentation. How can I obtain these emails which name me? The emails have not appeared under Correspondence on any subequent meeting agendas, but I need to know whether any/all the other parish councillors was copied into the correspondence - and whether there has been any further correspondence by the Clerk/Chairman/parish council about this matter. Does the inclusion of my name in such correspondence breach any GDPR rules?
