Alex Harris
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This person's 186 Official Information Act requests (page 2)
Participation in Cabinet Officials Committees
Successful.
by Ministry of Education to Alex Harris on 28 November 2012.
Successful.
Good morning Mr Harris,
Please find attached the Ministry’s response to your Official Information
Act request of 1 November 2012.
If you...
Handling of OIA requests on Christchurch school closures
Partially successful.
by Ministry of Education to Alex Harris on 27 November 2012.
Partially successful.
Participation in Cabinet Officials Committees
Successful.
by Ministry of Social Development to Alex Harris on 25 November 2012.
Successful.
Dear Alex Harris,
please find attached the Ministry's response to your Official Information
Act request of 1 November 2012.
Regards
Official...
Use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology
Successful.
by New Zealand Transport Agency to Alex Harris on 20 November 2012.
Successful.
Dear Alex
Please see the attached reply to your Official Information Act request of
17 October 2012.
Kind regards
Andrew Martin
M...
Participation in Cabinet Officials Committees
Successful.
by Ministry of Māori Development to Alex Harris on 18 November 2012.
Successful.
Tēnā koe Alex Harris
I refer to your email of 1 November 2012. Our response to your request is
attached.
Ngā mihi
Mel King | Manag...
Advice on participating in Horizons Regional Council's One Plan case
Successful.
by Minister of Conservation to Alex Harris on 14 November 2012.
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris,
Please see attached the reply to your OIA request of 18 October 2012.
Yours faithfully
Andrew MacPherson
Senior Solicito...
Participation in Cabinet Officials Committees
Successful.
by Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority to Alex Harris on 13 November 2012.
Successful.
Dear Alex,
Thank you for your request for information received on 1 November 2012.
Please find attached a letter relating to your request from...
Participation in Cabinet Officials Committees
Successful.
by Ministry of Justice to Alex Harris on 13 November 2012.
Successful.
Dear Alex Harris
Please find attached the Ministry's response to your OIA request of 1
November 2012.
Kind regards
Official Corres...
Text messages sent by Cr Michael Laws
Follow up
sent to Wanganui District Council by Alex Harris on 9 November 2012.
Partially successful.
Thankyou for your response. You may wish to read this speech by Deputy Ombudsman Leo Donnelly in which he makes it clear that emails and text messa...
Advice on Public Protection Orders
Refused.
by Crown Law Office to Alex Harris on 8 November 2012.
Refused.
Dear Mr Harris
Please find the above attachment relating to your Official Information Act request.
Kind regards
Crown Law Library
Participation in Cabinet Officials Committees
Successful.
by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on 8 November 2012.
Successful.
Dear Alex
Thank you for your email of 1 November requesting, under the Official Information Act, "a list of all Cabinet Officials' Committees the Chi...
Defence Act authorisation for october 5 armed offenders incident
Successful.
by New Zealand Defence Force to Alex Harris on 7 November 2012.
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached a response to your OIA request of 5 October 2012.
Regards,
Corporate and Ministerial Services...
Participation in Cabinet Officials Committees
Successful.
by Department of Internal Affairs to Alex Harris on 7 November 2012.
Successful.
Dear Alex Harris,
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act request
to the Department of Internal Affairs.
Regar...
Scrapping of "State of the Environment" report
Request to Ministry for the Environment by Alex Harris. Annotated by Gavin Millar on 6 November 2012.
Refused.
Disappointing response. There are clearly decisions around not producing 2012's State of the Environment report, they are even mentioned in the respon...
Police manual on "Police filming and audio recording of operations and events"
Successful.
by New Zealand Police to Alex Harris on 17 October 2012.
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris
I refer to your e-mailed Official Information Act request of 10 October
2012 detailed below.
Dear New Zealand Police,...
Submission to OIA review
Successful.
by Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to Alex Harris on 14 October 2012.
Successful.
Hi Alex,
Please find the requested information and explanatory letter attached. My
apologies for the lateness of our reply.
Regards,...
Advice on social, supported, and affordable housing in Christchurch
Refused.
by Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority to Alex Harris on 3 October 2012.
Refused.
Dear Mr Harris,
CERA received a request for information on 5 September 2012. Please find
attached a letter relating to this request from Ro...
Advice on stopping benefits of those with arrest warrants
Successful.
by Ministry of Social Development to Alex Harris on 2 October 2012.
Successful.
Dear Alex Harris,
please find attached the Ministry's response to your Official Information
Act request of 5 September 2012.
Regards
Officia...
Communications with Gamma International UK Ltd
Successful.
by Government Communications Security Bureau to Alex Harris on 1 October 2012.
Successful.
Please find attached our response to your OIA request
Thank you
__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus...
SEO for Mt Smart Stadium?
Follow up
sent to Auckland City Council by Alex Harris on 24 September 2012.
Successful.
(Please forward to John Robertson)
Thanks. I've passed this on to the forum's admin, and they should be in contact.
Yours sincerely,
Alex Ha...
Advice on ETS amendments
Successful.
by Minister for Climate Change Issues to Alex Harris on 19 September 2012.
Successful.
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Advice on drug-testing beneficaries
Successful.
by Ministry of Health to Alex Harris on 17 September 2012.
Successful.
Hello,
Please find attached the response to your request for official
information.
Yours sincerely
Government Relations
Corporate Services D...
Gift Register for Steven Joyce's Ministerial Advisers
Successful.
by Department of Internal Affairs to Alex Harris on 14 September 2012.
Successful.
Dear Alex,
please find attached the response to your Official Information Act request.
Kind regards,
Katrina Taylor
Business and Secretariat Suppor...
Submission to OIA review
Successful.
by Ministry for Primary Industries to Alex Harris on 10 September 2012.
Successful.
Dear Alex Harris
Please refer to the attached pdf file for the second part of our
response to your request under the Official Information Act.
Mi...
Advice on Christchurch asset sales
Partially successful.
by Hon Gerry Brownlee to Alex Harris on 10 September 2012.
Partially successful.
On behalf of Hon Gerry Brownlee thank you for your email. Your
correspondence has been noted and will be recorded.
All correspondence, includi...
This person's 55 annotations (page 2)
The [post-Nov 10] 2011 Report on the viability of major energy projects in Samoa; it was carried out by David Wright, Management consultant, on behalf of the National Energy Coordination Committee.
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Reuven Schwencke. Annotated by Alex Harris on 24 September 2012.
Partially successful.
The letter states the reason for the withhold as commercial confidence. That information will not be provided to you. You could ask the Ombudsman to...
Amount spent on police precence at National Party conference
Partially successful.
Another fine example of police being clueless about the OIA. "Operational sensitivity" is not a reason to withhold information (however, "maintenance...
RoC*Rol Formula and Briefings
Request to Department of Corrections by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Alex Harris on 28 August 2012.
Partially successful.
The Ombudsman's advice is crystal clear: material should be released in the form requested by the requester, unless doing so would impair efficient ad...
Coastal Erosion Hazard Risk report
Request to Kapiti Coast District Council by Alex Harris. Annotated by Alex Harris on 27 August 2012.
Successful.
Information is here:
http://www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/Planning/District-Planning/Coastal-Hazards/
OIA policies
Partially successful.
Some overlap with this:
http://fyi.org.nz/request/policy_for_handling_oia_requests#incoming-2840
Results of a search warrant executed on the property of Wayne Thomas Patterson in October 2006.
Successful.
I'd advise sending personal information by email rather than posting it in a public forum. The address format is "firstname.lastname@police.govt.nz"...
Source code of Budget 2012 App
Refused.
I agree. It looks quite dubious. Respond quoting the Practice Guidelines at them, then take it to the Ombudsman if necessary. At the least, we'll g...
Drink driving convictions
Information not held.
They'll be seeking clarification over exactly what information you are seeking: "cost of convictions" as in "social damage of drink driving", or "cost...
Apparently the original request was not recieved; the Council will apparently be responding "shortly". If its 20 working days from it being drawn to...
Apparently the email was not received; the Council are now treating this as a new request due on 20 August.
Report on Council Controlled Organisations
Request to Department of Internal Affairs by Alex Harris. Annotated by Alex Harris on 5 August 2012.
Successful.
The document is online here:
http://www.localcouncils.govt.nz/lgip.nsf/Files/PDF/$file/councilorgs.pdf
as part of the Local Government Information...
Locations of injection wells
Successful.
"OBR files are text files containing the unique ID of the document in an Objective electronic document/records management system."
And indeed that's...
Refugee Detention Information
Partially successful.
To expand on that: none of the material in question is "advice" (operations manuals and MOUs can't be), it deals with relationships with government b...
Refugee Detention Information
Partially successful.
Looking at that, some of those "reasons" look highly dubious, and there's the overriding question of why the material was not provided with redactions...
Resolution 2758 - PRC Admission to UN
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Alex Harris on 25 July 2012.
Information not held.
The problem is that if its in the National Archives, its not available under the OIA.
Resolution 2758 - PRC Admission to UN
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Alex Harris on 25 July 2012.
Information not held.
It may very well be in the national Archives. have you tried searching Archway to find out?
Information on Ministerial Advisors
Partially successful.
Technically they're employed by Ministerial Services, but its odd that he doesn't want to answer in his capacity as Minister
OIA Requests
Request to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Alex Harris on 29 June 2012.
Handled by post.
Correspondence with the Ombudsman is not "official information". But you should be able to get a copy of the original request.
A complaint has now been lodged with the Ombudsman
A complaint has now been lodged with the Ombudsman.
Impact on Brand Value of Asset Swaps
Information not held.
Meridian refused to take ownership of Whirinaki, possibly for precisely the reasons implied by this request. As a result, the station was sold:
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staff
Refused.
This clearly violates the Ministry of Justice's charging guidelines, which specify a free hour, and $38 for every half hour thereafter.
http://www.j...
Sadly, this hasn't resulted in the release of any additional information, but has at least forced DoL to say why they are withholding.
Number of strip searches carried out per year
Successful.
I've contacted them by email with a phsyical address, and reiterated that I expect an electronic response. If they insist on responding by post, I wi...
2011 Referals to Police
Refused.
Possibly someone complained to them about the release.
