Evidence of claimed "Public Heat"
Richard Yossarian made this Official Information request to Wellington City Council
The request was refused by Wellington City Council.
From: Richard Yossarian
Dear Wellington City Council,
This is an official information request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA).
This request is made to to gain information regarding a claim made by Wellington City Council spokesperson Richard MacLean that, “we’ve received a lot of heat [from the public] so we feel compelled to act” as reported by the Stuff website on 4 July 2022 (https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/ne...).
The information requested is:
1. All information, correspondence, and/or supporting evidence that the Wellington City Council or its contractors that was considered to be the received 'heat', as described by Wellington City Council spokesperson Richard MacLean, that compelled the Wellington City Council to act on Paul Eagle MP's election advertising.
Yours faithfully,
Richard Yossarian
From: BUS: Assurance
Wellington City Council
Tēnā koe Richard
Thank you for your email dated 04/07/2022 requesting information about
evidence of claimed "Public Heat" in regards to the stuff article.
Our team will manage your request under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 which requires us to provide a decision
as soon as possible, but no later than 01/08/2022, being 20 working days
of receipt.
The reference number for your request is IRC-3567.
Please contact us if you have any further questions.
Kind regards
The Assurance Team
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From: BUS: Assurance
Wellington City Council
Kia ora Richard,
Apologies, I had responded to your other information request.
Thank you for your request made under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (the Act), received on 04 July 2022. You requested the following information:
1. All information, correspondence, and/or supporting evidence that the Wellington City Council or its contractors that was considered to be the received 'heat', as described by Wellington City Council spokesperson Richard MacLean, that compelled the Wellington City Council to act on Paul Eagle MP's election advertising.
Wellington City Council received a number of tweets from the public in relation to the sign, as referred to by Mr MacLean. As such WCC has refused your request for information under section 17(d) of the Act, as the information is publicly available on Twitter Wellington City Council (@WgtnCC) / Twitter
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Ngâ mihi
Claudia
Claudia Holgate
Senior Advisor | Official Information Team
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From: Richard Yossarian
Dear BUS: Assurance,
Thank you for your response to my request for information regarding a claim made by Wellington City Council spokesperson Richard MacLean that, “we’ve received a lot of heat [from the public] so we feel compelled to act” as reported by the Stuff website on 4 July 2022 (your reference number IRC-3567).
Your response does not respond to my request. I have no idea what posts on Twitter.com you consider the to be the received 'heat' that compelled the Wellington City Council to act on Paul Eagle MP's election advertising. Your response provides me no information on whether any given post on Twitter.com was considered by the Wellington City Council as compelling evidence. As such the information is not public as I do not, and can not know, what information you are referring to.
Please identify which posts on on Twitter.com you are referring to or I will complain to the Ombudsman.
Alternatively if you have no records and/or Council staff cannot recall what posts on on Twitter.com were considered compelling at the time you may wish to reconsider your grounds for refusal.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Yossarian
From: BUS: Assurance
Wellington City Council
Kia ora Richard,
The quote from Richard MacLean "we’ve received a lot of heat [from the public] so we feel compelled to act” was a general term to encompass that there had been complaints from the public regarding the billboards. Wellington City Council received a number of tweets from the public in relation to the sign, there was no specific "compelling evidence" which you have asked for.
For your reference, an example from Twitter is below. As previously advised this is all publicly available so we will not be providing further.
https://twitter.com/MotherOfMeeps/status...
Ngā mihi
Claudia
Claudia Holgate
Senior Advisor | Official Information Team
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