Communications with Speak Up for Women
Tessa made this Official Information request to Casey Costello
The request was successful.
From: Tessa
Dear Casey Costello,
Under the Official information Act I request any and all communications (including emails, texts, letters, signal/whatsapp or equivalent messages and any meeting notes) between your Office and the organisation “Speak Up for Women” or any representatives of this group. I request this information from the date of my request back to when you became a Minister.
Please feel free to exclude from my request any incoming correspondence from this group where that correspondence received no response from your Office.
Yours faithfully,
Tessa
From: Tessa
Dear Casey Costello,
I await your reply which is now several days overdue. I will be contacting the ombudsman tomorrow regarding your lack of reply given that you have not complied with your obligations under the Official Information Act.
Yours faithfully,
Tessa
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Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) left an annotation ()
Kia ora Tessa,
I note the minister claims that your request "was not received by my office from the FYI website."
This is incorrect.
We record all email delivery attempts. We have a record of the ministers.govt.nz email server accepting the message for delivery at 2025-04-14T21:09:19.654 UTC (9:19am 15 April 2025, NZST). Their email server responded with the SMTP protocol response:
'250 2.0.0 45ytjt25py-1 Message accepted for delivery'
At that point, the request had legally been "received" within the meaning of the OIA - regardless of whether or when the minister's email system delivered it to her mailbox, or if it came to the attention of her staff.
If you would like to make a delay complaint to the Ombudsman, you are welcome to contact me through help@fyi.org.nz and I will supply evidence that can be used by an Ombudsman investigator.
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