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06 March 2025
Erika Whithome
[FYI request #29987 email]
Kia ora Erika
The information you requested - CAS-1055575-K7R7N9
Thank you for your request for information dated 07 February 2025 requesting information relating to the
rainbow flag on the AT Mobile app.
Please supply the minutes, emails, business case, change forms and any other correspondence for the
decision to add rainbow flags to school buses on the "AT Mobile" App.
Please find the attached correspondence.
Please supply the above for the decision to add rainbow flags to buses in general on the AT Mobile App.
The feature to allow AT to add various images on top of vehicle icons in the AT Mobile app was first
developed in December 2020 to show a Santa Hat icon for Christmas. Subsequently, we extended this
functionality to allow AT to easily add these images for other events, which currently include bunny ears
and a rainbow flag.
Please supply the cost for this modification to the AT Mobile app to display rainbow flags on buses.
Functionality to enable the above functionality in the AT Mobile app occurred around 2020/2021 and cost
$2,576.
Please share the start and end date of the rainbow flags on school buses in the AT Mobile App. At the
end of the 2024 school year, school buses did not have rainbow flags on them in the AT Mobile app.
Since 2021, each year during the month of February, the rainbow flags are shown on all buses on the AT
Mobile app. In 2025, the flags will be shown from 1 February 2025 to 28 February 2025.
Some information in some documents has been withheld under s7(2)(a) of LGOIMA to protect the privacy
of natural persons.
Should you believe that we have not responded appropriately to your request, you are able to make a
complaint to the Office of the Ombudsman in accordance with section 27(3) of the LGOIMA and seek an
investigation and review in regard to this matter.
Yours sincerely
Phil Wratt
Engagement Manager,
Customer Care.
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