18 August 2021
Official information request No. 8140008983
(Please quote this in any correspondence)
Krista Stevens
By email
: [FYI request #16186 email]
Dear Krista
Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
Re: Code of Conduct Investigations
Thank you for your email of 29 July 2021 where you requested information regarding Code
of Conduct investigations. Your specific request and our response are set out below.
May I please have information on every code of conduct that has been or is being investigated in
Auckland Council this term 2019 onward. (We note when we asked you to clarify your request you
specified you were interested in investigations into code of conduct breaches by elected members
both Council ors and Local Board members).
Current Auckland Council elected members, including the mayor, ward council ors and local
board members, were elected through the 2019 Auckland Council local elections. All
successful candidates were officially inaugurated into their representative roles in early
November 2019. Our response to your request refers only to complaints received from this
point in time.
You have asked for information regarding investigations into
breaches of the Code. A
complaint will only be referred to as a
breach once it has gone through a process of
assessment and investigation and, as a result, is found to be a
breach and has not been
resolved. Therefore, we are only providing you with information regarding complaints that
have been through a full process of assessment and investigation and are now complete.
From the beginning of the current term until the date of your request there have been 23
complaints where either a member of the public, an Auckland Council staf member, or
another elected member has made a complaint to the Auckland Council Chief Executive
alleging that an elected member has breached the Code.
Of those 23 complaints, none were found to constitute
breaches of the Code following
assessment, investigation, and resolution.
Private Bag 92300, Auckland 1142 | aucklandcouncil.govt.nz | Ph 09 301 0101
However, please see below for further details about the various outcomes:
• 12 were resolved with no further action
• 2 were resolved through successful mediation
• 2 were withdrawn by the complainant
• 1 was resolved through an apology
• 6 were dismissed on various grounds.
For more information on how Auckland Council currently processes alleged breaches of the
Code, please see Section 4 of the Auckland Council Elected Members Code of Conduct
2021, which you can access through th
e Auckland Council website.
Decisions relating to the information that is being released to you were made by
Rose
Leonard Manager Governance Services.
Should you believe Auckland Council has not responded appropriately to your request, you
have the right by way of complaint, under section 27(3) of the LGOIMA, to apply to the
Ombudsman to seek an investigation and review of the decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz
or freephone 0800 802 602.
If you have any further queries, please contact me on 09 301 0101 quoting official information
request number 8140008983.
Yours sincerely
Angela Hare
Senior Privacy & LGOIMA Business Partner
Governance Services
Private Bag 92300, Auckland 1142 | aucklandcouncil.govt.nz | Ph 09 301 0101