Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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Timeliness of my OIA requests using FYI: https://cipscis.github.io/charter/oia.html
Timeliness of my OIA requests using FYI: https://cipscis.github.io/charter/oia.html
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This person's 433 annotations (page 9)
Searches of prisoners
Awaiting classification.
I see the Department of Corrections continues to choose to use the inaccessible format of image-based PDFs for their OIA response letters, and it seems...
OIA Authorisation and Training of the National Manager Response and Operations
Partially successful.
This request is now 106 working days overdue. Police have told me I can expect a response this week to my OIA request asking about this one. That reque...
Information gathered during review of proactive publication of Cabinet Papers
Partially successful.
I see the State Services Commission has ignored this part of your request:
"Also pursuant to section 16 of the OIA I request that the attachments are...
Demograph of students suspended or expelled, Schools plan to prevent institutional racism
Long overdue.
Mt Roskill Grammar's response to this request is months overdue. Have they been in touch with you off the FYI website to provide this information?
OIA Authorisation and Training of the National Manager Response and Operations
Partially successful.
Police's response to this request is now 98 working days unlawfully overdue.
I asked them last month to confirm that they had not forgotten about thi...
Facebook Video
Information not held.
I'd urge you to lay a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman regarding NZ Police's unacceptable delay in their initial response to your request, ha...
Authority under law to carry firearms
Successful.
If you don't receive a response by the end of tomorrow, I recommend you lay a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman.The Official Information Act o...
Prison phone service
Successful.
Unfortunately the Department of Corrections chose to use an inaccessible image-based PDF format for their response letter, which makes it impossible to...
Main subject of complaints against Police
Successful.
The response letter says "Please find attached the Police Professional Conduct data now displayed on the Police Website" but this data does not appear...
Records of theft at National Party Headquarters of laptops
Partially successful.
Just a reminder that annotations on FYI aren't sent to the agency, so NZ Police won't have been sent my previous annotation.
Records of theft at National Party Headquarters of laptops
Partially successful.
Police may try to "restart the clock" on this request when they receive your response, citing section 15(1AA) of the Official Information Act. However,...
OIA Authorisation and Training of the National Manager Response and Operations
Partially successful.
The OIA starts back up today after the summer break. Police's response to this request is now 65 working days overdue.
Location of red light cameras
Information not held.
Section 14 of the Official Information Act requires agencies to transfer requests in cases like this, where they do not hold the information that has b...
Information on privacy and data for Smart Homes Project
Long overdue.
This is a bizarre response. Kāinga Ora has simply not answered some of these questions, though they have also not given any reason (as required under t...
I'm not certain what guideline Police are quoting from here. However, this is not the first time I've seen Police claim that information is not held be...
Agreed. I laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman when Police first missed their extended due date, but I doubt they will get to the bottom o...
I have laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman regarding the unlawful delay in NZ Police's response to this request.
OIA Authorisation and Training of the National Manager Response and Operations
Partially successful.
This request is 41 working days overdue now. Just a few more and you'll have beat my record of Police not replying to a request until it was 43 working...
Structure charts
Partially successful.
"Perhaps you should try the eastern and BOP districts directly as I only process requests for the Waikato District."
That's not your problem. Your re...
OIA Authorisation and Training of the National Manager Response and Operations
Partially successful.
26 working days unlawfully overdue and counting... Police really don't seem to be taking this request very seriously, do they?
Dogs shot by NZ police officers in last 5 years
Successful.
You may be interested to know that NZ Police have recently released more information regarding their use of force against animals. This includes the nu...
Complaints made about Corrections Officers
Partially successful.
It's disappointing that Corrections has chosen to use an inaccessible format, and released this information as an image-based PDF. If you wish to avoid...
Prisoner Incentive Framework
Partially successful.
Oops, not sure where my acronym "PCI" came from in that annotation. I was meaning to refer to the Prisoner Incentive Framework.
Prisoner Incentive Framework
Partially successful.
Some of these numbers don't appear to add up.
It's unfortunate that Corrections chose to release this information in an inaccessible format, as an im...
Youth payments
Partially successful.
It's disappointing that MSD has been unable to release much of this information effectively due to their own low quality record keeping processes.
Al...