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Tēnā koe dMedia,

 

Your request will be considered under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA). This has been officially
lodged as of 21/10/22, reference RFS 314443, where the relevant staff will
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Ngā mihi,

 

Maia | Māngai Wheako Kiritaki / Customer Experience Representative |
Gisborne District Council
email [1][GDC request email] | ph +64 6 867 2049
address 15 Fitzherbert Street, PO Box 747, Gisborne 4010 | url
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From: dMedia <[FOI #20928 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 20 October 2022 2:56 pm
To: Services <[email address]>
Subject: RFS 314443, Official Information request - Author of Facebook
post on Gisborne District Council

 

Dear Gisborne District Council,

I request to know the author or authors names of this Facebook post and
anyone else's names involved in authorizing this statement. Also the
person or persons names who turned off the comments and who authorized
that, and which comments specifically caused that response.
Please provide their full names and positions in the council.

[4]https://www.facebook.com/100064619894312...

Yours faithfully,

dMedia

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Tçnâ koe dMedia

 

Thank you for your request for information concerning the author of the
Facebook post on Gisborne District Council’s page, the authoriser and the
person who turned off the comments, who authorised that and which comments
specifically caused that response. You also requested full names and
positions in Council.

 

Your request has been considered under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 and has been partially granted.  

 

Please see our response below:

 

The Council monitors its Facebook page for community standards and has a
process for assessing whether community standards have been met or not. We
have a process for escalating any major challenges to Council’s reputation
on our page.

 

A statement Council posts when these community standards are not being met
is reproduced below:

 

Our comms team welcomes your comments on this Facebook page. We ask that
you’re polite and respectful with your comments and views. We reserve the
right to hide or remove any posts that are incorrect, ambiguous or provide
speculative information. This includes any posts containing disrespectful,
rude, or abusive language; direct personal attacks or disclosure of
private information or details of elected members or staff, other Facebook
users or individuals; objectionable material; misinformation and
unsolicited advertising, marketing or spam. If your contributions
repeatedly fail to comply with Facebook’s terms, and/or the above rules,
then you will be blocked from posting to this page

 

Council wrote a post about the various unpleasant comments made regarding
the video of one of its staff. In the context of some of the comments
being posted on our page it was considered that these standards were not
being met so turned off any further comments as it has done in many other
instances. The video that the comments related to were being posted on
Facebook and we were being tagged in.

 

Your request for the names and positions of staff members has been
considered under LGOIMA and has been refused.

Individual names and position titles of staff involved in making these
decisions will be withheld under section 7(2)(a) of LGOIMA “To protect the
privacy of natural persons, including that of deceased natural persons” as
we ensure the safety and security of all our staff.

 

You have the right under section 27(3) of LGOIMA to make a complaint to
the Ombudsman about the refusal to provide the requested information set
out in this email.

 

Kind regards

 

Melanie

 

Melanie Thornton | Kaiarataki Tuia Tângata / Manager Engagement | Gisborne
District Council
email [email address] | ph +64 6 867 2049
address 15 Fitzherbert Street, PO Box 747, Gisborne 4010 | url
[1]www.gdc.govt.nz

 

 

 

From: Customer Service <[email address]>
Sent: Friday, 21 October 2022 12:09 pm
To: dMedia <[FOI #20928 email]>
Subject: RE: RFS 314443, Official Information request - Author of Facebook
post on Gisborne District Council

 

Tçnâ koe dMedia,

 

Your request will be considered under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA). This has been officially
lodged as of 21/10/22, reference RFS 314443, where the relevant staff will
contact you.

 

The Council is obliged to respond to requests for information within 20
working days unless that time is extended under section 14. If it is
extended, you will be notified.

 

Ngâ mihi,

 

Maia | Mângai Wheako Kiritaki / Customer Experience Representative |
Gisborne District Council
email [2][GDC request email] | ph +64 6 867 2049
address 15 Fitzherbert Street, PO Box 747, Gisborne 4010 | url
[3]www.gdc.govt.nz

 

[4]Please tell us how we did

 

 

 

 

From: dMedia <[5][FOI #20928 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 20 October 2022 2:56 pm
To: Services <[6][email address]>
Subject: RFS 314443, Official Information request - Author of Facebook
post on Gisborne District Council

 

Dear Gisborne District Council,

I request to know the author or authors names of this Facebook post and
anyone else's names involved in authorizing this statement. Also the
person or persons names who turned off the comments and who authorized
that, and which comments specifically caused that response.
Please provide their full names and positions in the council.

[7]https://www.facebook.com/100064619894312...

Yours faithfully,

dMedia

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Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[8][FOI #20928 email]

Is [9][GDC request email] the wrong address for Official Information
requests to Gisborne District Council? If so, please contact us using this
form:
[10]https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
[11]https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers

If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please
ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA
page.

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