For Your Information

What's This Site About?

This site allows New Zealanders to lodge Official Information Act (OIA) and Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA) requests online.

Bodies subject to the OIA must respond to requests within twenty working days.

Who Runs This Site?

This is a volunteer run site. It is associated with Open New Zealand, and has no political affiliation.

How Does It Work?

1. Find the public body you want to question. They must be subject to either the OIA or LGOIMA. If we don't have a public body listed, ask us to add them.
2. Ask your question. Specific, simple questions are more likely to get good answers.
3. We send the question for you. We also publish it to the site.
4. We publish their response and notify you. You can then mark it as successfully answered, or query them further.

Some Recent Requests

• Police Remuneration Information Awaiting response

  Dear Sir Thanks for your enquiry. We have forwarded your question to the correct department and someone will be in touch shortly. Sincerely...

  Awaiting response: acknowledgement by New Zealand Police

  to Joshua Grainger on 3 February 2012.

• NCSC/CCIP Incident Report Statistics Rejected

  This is a request under the Official Information Act regarding your suborganization, the New Zealand National Cyber Security Center, and its predec...

  Rejected: request sent to Government Communications Security Bureau

  by Joshua Grainger on 17 January 2012.

• CHCH101 Grade Breakdown Successful

  Dear Joshua Thank you for your enquiry. I have forwarded it through to our registrar for a response. If you have any further queries please do n...

  Successful: acknowledgement by University of Canterbury

  to Joshua Grainger on 22 January 2012.