Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:35:32 +0000
Subject: Re: Acknowledgement of your OIA request - GEMS-48841 - communications with B416 and its members
From: Joshua Riley <
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I'm writing with information to assist the search on my request concerning communications with B416.
To be clear at the outset: this is not an amendment or refinement of my request, and I don't ask that it be treated as one. It is simply information that should help ensure the search captures what is already within scope.
B416 is not the only name this group operates under. As reported by the NZ Herald, the wider initiative operates under the name the Children's Online Safety Society, with B416 as a focused campaign within it. The registered entity is the Before16 Charitable Trust, registered in January 2025.
This matters practically. The aide-mémoire provided to the Prime Minister on 17 April 2025 — released by DPMC and published at
https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2025-07/dpmc-roia-oia-2024-25-0888.pdf — was sent under the name Children's Online Safety Society, not B416. A search confined to the term “B416” would not have found it. Since my request covers “any other director, officer, employee, member, representative or agent of B416,” and B416 is a campaign of that society, correspondence under the society's name is correspondence from the same body and is already within scope.
I would therefore be grateful if your searches could include the following terms:
– “B416”, “Before 16”, “Before16”, “Before16 Charitable Trust”, and “Children's Online Safety Society”;
– Cecilia Robinson, Anna Mowbray, Anna Curzon, Blair Knight, Malindi MacLean, and Nicole Green (chief executive);
– Dr Samantha Marsh and Dr Maneesh Deva, named publicly as part of the wider team; and
– Holly Brooker, credited as the source of Appendix 3 to the aide-mémoire, in connection with “Makes Sense”.
I note the society is also described as including a 13-member expert panel and a youth advisory group; if your searches identify other individuals corresponding on the group's behalf under any of these names, I ask that they be treated as within scope.
I appreciate your assistance, and I'm happy to clarify anything further in writing.
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Kia ora Joshua
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