Complaints about information requests
Mike Gendall made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
The request was partially successful.
From: Mike Gendall
Dear New Zealand Police,
According to your records, how many requests under the Official Information Act are subject to Ombudsman complaint as at the date of this request? What was the wording of the request that become subject of an Ombudsman complaint? According to your records, what is the age of the complaint?
I assure you I'm a New Zealand citizen (and am well known to the New Zealand Police) and am currently resident in New Zealand.
Yours faithfully,
Mike Gendall
New Zealand Police
Dear Mike
I have forwarded your enquiry to the appropriate department.
Kind regards
PUBLIC AFFAIRS TEAM
NZ POLICE
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To: OIA requests at New Zealand Police <[New Zealand Police request email]>
From: Mike Gendall <[OIA #536 email]>
Date: 01/09/2012 10:58PM
Subject: Official Information Act request - Complaints about information
requests
Dear New Zealand Police,
According to your records, how many requests under the Official
Information Act are subject to Ombudsman complaint as at the date
of this request? What was the wording of the request that become
subject of an Ombudsman complaint? According to your records, what
is the age of the complaint?
I assure you I'm a New Zealand citizen (and am well known to the
New Zealand Police) and am currently resident in New Zealand.
Yours faithfully,
Mike Gendall
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Hi Mike,
Please find attached the response to your request for information.
Regards
[1]5068_16175_prevIan Bradshaw
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Mike Gendall left an annotation ()
One would think the Police would have some record of the request outside the correspondence or communication "between" the Ombudsmen and the agency. What information does their database contain?
The Police are notorious for their poor application of the Act...
Oh well, Police don't want to tell, Police don't want to tell. What can one do about it.... wait 3 years for the Ombudsman?
Mike Gendall left an annotation ()
Would be good to how many OIA Ombudsman are still alive and pre-date the 23/09/2010 complaint (the oldest listed in the Police attachment). Surely, the Police must know. And one would hope there's not too many.
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Joshua Grainger left an annotation ()
The police seem to have misinterpreted your request. They're correct in that a copy of the complaint to the Ombudsmen is not Official Information, but that doesn't appear to be what you were asking for: you appear to instead asking for a copy of the original request. This is covered by the Official Information Act.
In fact this exact method (OIAing other OIAs) was used by lawyer Steven Price to conduct one of the few studies of how the OIA works in practice: http://www.medialawjournal.co.nz/downloa...
Personally I'm curious about what the requests from 2010 were about: what are the police fighting hard enough to cause a delay of two years?
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