Name and Contact Details for all Regional Commissioners, Prison Directors, and Deputy Prison Directors.
Phoebe moran made this Official Information request to Department of Corrections
The request was partially successful.
From: Phoebe moran
Dear Department of Corrections,
Please supply the following information under the Official Information Act (OIA):
1) The name, title, email address and direct dial number for all regional commissioners.
2) The name, title, email address and direct dial number for all directors (or their equivalent title) of all New Zealand prisons.
3) The name, title, email address and direct dial number for all deputy directors (or their equivalent title) of all New Zealand prisons.
Yours faithfully,
Phoebe Moran
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Dear Phoebe
Thank you for your email of 28 June 2018 requesting information relating
to contact details for all Regional Commissioners, Prison Directors and
Deputy Prison Directors.
Please be advised your request has been received, and will be considered
under the Official Information Act 1982.
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa
Mayfair House | 44-52 The Terrace | Private Box 1206 | Wellington
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From: Info@Corrections
Department of Corrections
Good afternoon
Please see attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections, extending your recent OIA request.
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
National Office | Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa |
Mayfair House, 44-52 The Terrace, Wellington | Private Bag 1206, Wellington 6140 |
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From: Info@Corrections
Department of Corrections
Good afternoon
Please see attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.
The links included in this response are:
http://www.corrections.govt.nz/about_us/...
http://www.corrections.govt.nz/about_us/...
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
National Office | Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa |
Mayfair House, 44-52 The Terrace, Wellington | Private Bag 1206, Wellington 6140 |
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Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) left an annotation ()
I recommend a meta-request: ask for all the correspondence relating to your request. They claimed "consultation" was the reason behind the extension, so ask for that.
Regarding 9(2)(g)(ii) (Improper pressure or harassment) - I can see this could be a concern for prison directors, but we should see evidence of how they have weighed up the public interest.
The Ombudsman has a guide on how this should be applied, which may be useful to cite if you choose to make a complaint. The guide is here: http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/syste...
Among other things, it says it is necessary to determine "what sort of behaviour may be expected as a result of the release of this information."
Published case notes and decisions for 9(2)(g)(ii) usually side with the requester when it comes to revealing names of senior public servants, though I'm not so sure about phone numbers and email addresses.
Things to do with this request
- Add an annotation (to help the requester or others)
- Download a zip file of all correspondence
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
Withholding the work contact details of senior public servants with such little and vague justification is pretty unacceptable. I would recommend you complain to the Office of the Ombudsman about this refusal.
I believe, based on an email I received in December 2015, that the Department of Corrections uses the firstname.lastname@corrections.govt.nz format for their email addresses.
If the email addresses they are withholding for prison directors match that format, trying to withhold that information in this manner is pretty ridiculous.
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