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From: Peter Craig Hardgrave

Dear New Plymouth District Council (NPDC),

I am writing to request all information to which I am entitled under section 12 of the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) (The Act). I am a NZ citizen and live in New Zealand, and this information is sought in the public interest of all New Zealanders.

Please find below my OIA request, which relates to NPDC's communications with media outlets, budget expenditure on public relations and interactions with media.

1. Please provide copies of all email communications between NPDC and these media outlets/people for 2022 (Between 1st January and 27th September 2022):
(a). Newshub,
(b). RNZ,
(c). TVNZ,
(d). New Zealand Herald,
(e). Stuff,
(f). Newsroom.

2. Please provide the following information. It largely relates to how NPDC is spending its budget, and its actions in relation to public relations and information handling - which should be transparent processes.

Press support employed by NPDC;

(a). How many full-time people have been employed by NPDC to liaise with the press or deal with the press in any way (either social media or main stream media or any other form of media), or who have supported such operations - on a yearly basis for the past 3 years.
(b). How much has been paid on salaries per year for this over the past 3years.
(c). Please provide the numbers of people who have done the above part-time on a yearly basis for the past 3 years.
(d). How much has been paid per year for salaries for part-time press support for each year over the past 3 years.

(e). Please provide the numbers of people who do the above on a contracted basis, including:
(i). their names, and
(ii). the amount paid to the top 10 press contractors per year on a yearly basis for the past 3 years and
(iii). the total amount paid to such contractors for each of the past 3 years.
(f). How much has been paid overall for press activities (including salaries as well as money paid for various public relation and press type services) for each of the last 3 years.

3. How much money has been paid per year for each of the past 3 years by NPDC for any reason to the following media outlets (including their online version).
(a). The New Zealand Herald.
(b). The Dominion Post.
(c). The Press.
(d). The Otago Daily Times.
(e). Herald on Sunday.
(f). The Sunday Star-Times.
(g). The National Business Review.
(h). Business North.
(i). Stuff.
(j). Taranaki Daily News.
(k). Central Community Newspapers.
(l). Opunake & Coastal news.
(m). Stratford Press.
(n). Manawatu Standard.
(o). Patea & Waverley Press Newspaper.
(q). Newshub.
(r). Live Magazine (Taranaki’s lifestyle magazine.

4. How much money has been paid per year for each of the past 3 years by NPDC for any reason to TV stations? (Please list by TV station and amount).

5. How much money has been per year for each of the past 3 years by NPDC for any reason to radio stations? (Please list by radio station and amount).

6. How much money has been paid per year for each of the past 3 years by NPDC for any reason to bloggers? (Please list by blog name [and owner] and the amount).

7. What is the relationship of NPDC (including any of its press support people) with www.waterfordpress.co.nz?

8. Social media management;
(a). How much money per year for each of the past 3 years has been spent on social media management?
(b). What did this social media management consist of.
(c). What were the top 10 social media sites with which NPDC Press support liaised with.

9. Re: Censorship
(a). Is NPDC engaged in censoring social media it does not like in any way.
(b). To what part of NPDC can questions be asked to investigate interference with visibility of social media.

Yours faithfully,

Peter Craig Hardgrave

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Hi Peter

 

Thanks for your email.

 

We acknowledge receipt and will action your request.

 

Many thanks

 

Ben

 

Ben Kohlis

Strategy - Marketing, Communications & Design Lead

New Plymouth District Council | Liardet St | Private Bag 2025 | New
Plymouth 4340

PHONE 06-759 6060

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Good afternoon, Mr Hardgrave,

Please find attached information requested of NPDC (CSM22/504591) under
the under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
(LGOIMA) in relation to media personnel and spend.

 

Certain information has been withheld from the information attached with
reference to reasons for the refusal under section 7 of the LGOIMA for the
following reasons:

o To protect the protect the privacy of natural persons (section
7(2)(a)) we have removed names of some natural persons to protect
their privacy.
o As it would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial
position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the
information (s7(2) (b) (ii)).

 

With regards to your request for “all copies of all email communications
between NPDC and these media outlets/people for 2022 (Between 1st January
and 27th September 2022)” between NPDC and several media outlets, we are
still working on how to get this information to you. The data is around 3
gigabytes and contains thousands of emails and will take a considerable
amount of time to collate. If you would like to refine you request, please
let us know.

You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of
the Council’s decision not to provide all the information you have
requested.

If you wish to discuss any aspect of this request with us, including our
decision please feel free to contact [1]media[New Plymouth District Council request email]  

 

 

 

Lisah Henry

Public Engagement Specialist
PHONE 06 759 6060

New Plymouth District Council | Liardet St | Private Bag 2025 | New
Plymouth 4340 |
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or copy it. If you have received this email message in error please notify
the sender immediately and erase the original message and any attachments
from your system. Thank you.

Statements in this email and any attachments do not necessarily reflect
the views of New Plymouth District Council.

For more information about New Plymouth District Council, visit our
website at [5]www.npdc.govt.nz

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