Development of Alert Levels in early 2020
Al made this Official Information request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
The request was refused by Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
From: Al
Hi everyone,
I'd like to request:
- All documentation, including meeting minutes or other communications, that show how the alert levels were developed between the 20th of February to the 25th of March 2020. This includes all feedback from government and non-government sources on the development to finalise the alert levels.
- Documentation, including meeting minutes or other communications, on the creation and presentation of the below linked document on mitigation and suppression
https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/sites/default/f...
Thank you all,
Al Johnson
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Kia ora,
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From: Al
Hi everyone,
The available proactive releases do not answer my request they merely provide background to my request. I suspect I need to reiterate the request and its scope for you more clearly.
I'm specifically asking for:
- any documentation or communications (including and not limited to emails, meeting notes, messages via any type of messenger service or associated recordings of meetings) that relate to the development of what was presented as the 4 alert levels on the 21st of March 2020 to New Zealand by the Prime Minister.
I'm seeking to answer the question: How did the alert system become an idea and how was it developed?
This might support you finding this information - the below NZ Herald link quotes the then Prime Minister on the 18th of March deciding on an alert system (based on those proactively released documents) and "tasked officials" to create it:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-c...
On the 20th of March they were developed as a 1 pager and feedback was requested on them from the Covid Technical Advisory group.
A further OIA on the DPMC website sees that the Alert Levels were then 'designed' or further 'refined' on the morning of Saturday the 21st of March that the then Prime Minister presented later that same day:
https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/sites/default/f...
Based on the above, I'm happy to reduce the initial date part of my request to just the 10th of March to the 21st of March to support searching for how this became and idea and how it was developed into what we understood the 4 alert levels to be.
I hope this information helps fulfil my request.
Thank you,
Al
From: Information [DPMC]
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
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Kia ora,
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA)
received on 24 August 2023, copied below. We will respond to your request
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[1][DPMC request email].
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response your personal information, including your name and contact
details, will be removed.
Ngā mihi,
Ministerial Coordinator
Ministerial Services
Strategy, Governance and Engagement
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
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Kia ora,
Please see the attached letter regarding your recent OIA request.
Ngā mihi,
Ministerial Coordinator
Ministerial Services
Strategy, Governance and Engagement
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
E [1][DPMC request email]
The information contained in this email message is for the attention of
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communication of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. If you
are not the intended recipient you must not disclose, copy or distribute
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in error, please destroy the email and notify the sender immediately.
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are not the intended recipient you must not disclose, copy or distribute
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2. file:///tmp/Signature_files/filelist.xml
3. file:///tmp/Signature_files/editdata.mso
4. file:///tmp/Signature_files/themedata.thmx
5. file:///tmp/Signature_files/colorschememapping.xml
6. file:///tmp/Signature_files/filelist.xml
7. file:///tmp/Signature_files/editdata.mso
8. file:///tmp/Signature_files/themedata.thmx
9. file:///tmp/Signature_files/colorschememapping.xml
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DPMC have responded saying it was too long ago and so too hard to fulfill this request basically.
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