Official Information Act Request Regarding RRR Organisations Worldwide Limited

Esther Peters made this Official Information request to Ministry of Social Development

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From: Esther Peters

Esther Peters and Levi Marley Hetherington
[email address]
9 Selby Street, Pokeno
22/02/2025

To:
Ministry of Social Development (MSD)
Department of Corrections
Subject: Official Information Act Request Regarding RRR Organisations Worldwide Limited

Tēnā koutou,
Under the Official Information Act 1982, I request the following information regarding interactions between RRR Organisations Worldwide Limited and your respective agencies:
Corrections OIA Requests:
1. Did Corrections send an email to probation offices across New Zealand, advising them NOT to work with or support RRR?
2. Did Corrections Wellington and probation managers tell businesses to avoid working with RRR, offering them government incentives instead?
3. Did Corrections officers warn community members and businesses against trusting RRR because they are “a bunch of convicts”?
4. Did Corrections advise people under their supervision—who were being assisted by RRR—not to trust or engage with RRR?

MSD OIA Requests:
1. How many people did RRR Organisations Worldwide Limited help move off the benefit?
2. Why did MSD refuse to support RRR Organisations Worldwide Limited?
3. Why did Central Wellington MSD decline support for RRR, even when an East Coast senior manager advocated for it?
4. Why does MSD support a convicted child sex offender—allowing them to work with children—while refusing to support RRR?
I request copies of all emails, internal communications, reports, and any relevant documentation regarding these matters.
Please provide this information in an electronic format where possible. If any part of my request is refused under the OIA, please specify the grounds for refusal as per the Act.

Ngā mihi,

Esther Peters and Levi Marley Hetherington

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From: OIA_Requests (MSD)
Ministry of Social Development

Tēnā koe Esther Peters and Levi Marley Hetherington,

Thank you for your email received 24 February 2025, under the Official Information Act 1982. Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate officials at National Office to respond.

The information you have requested may contain the names and contact details of our staff. Please let us know by 26 Febraury 2025 whether you require these names and contact details. We will need to consult our staff before deciding whether we can release this information, and this will take a bit more time. If we do not hear from you, we will assume that you do not require staff names and contact details.

Ngā manaakitanga,

Official Information Team | Ministerial and Executive Services
Ministry of Social Development

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From: Esther Peters

Dear OIA_Requests (MSD),

Thank you for your response, We require all information. The dates we are seeking is from the date Levi and I took ourselves off the benefit after we have taken our first couple of clients off through to October 2024. All information relating TO RRR Organisations Worldwide Limited and our names, thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Esther Peters and Levi Marley Hetherington

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From: Esther Peters

Dear OIA_Requests (MSD),

Thank you for your response, We require all information. The dates we are seeking is from the date Levi and I took ourselves off the benefit after we have taken our first couple of clients off through to October 2024. All information relating TO RRR Organisations Worldwide Limited and our names, thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Esther Peters and Levi Marley Hetherington

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