Minister's Twitter Feed
Andrew Riddell made this Official Information request to Minister for Economic Development
The request was refused by Minister for Economic Development.
From: Andrew Riddell
Dear Minister for Economic Development,
I request that you unblock my access to your twitter feed.
As your tweets relate to your Ministerial responsibilities I consider that they are official information, and able to be requested.
My twitter handle is @AndrewRiddell1
I confirm I am a New Zealand citizen resident in New Zealand.
Kia ora,
Andrew Riddell
From: S Joyce (MIN)
Minister for Economic Development
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Minister for Regulatory Reform
Minister of Science and Innovation
Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
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Associate Minister of Finance
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Andrew Riddell left an annotation ()
I complained to the Ombudsman who concluded that there is no legal grounds to require Joyce to unblock me on Twitter. The Ombudsman considered that I was effectively asking for future information not existing information and that is not provided for under the Official Information Act.
Marcus Cook left an annotation ()
If you log out of Twitter, you should be able to view his feed in any case, as he wouldn't be a locked account I wouldn't think.
You wouldn't be able to tweet him though, of course.
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Andrew Riddell left an annotation ()
Am complaining to Ombudsman about the complete lack of response.
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