Requesting the CCTV footage of particular buses

Hugh Davenport made this Official Information request to Wellington Regional Council

The request was refused by Wellington Regional Council.

From: Hugh Davenport

Dear Wellington Regional Council,

I would like to request the CCTV footage of the following buses operated by a contractor for Metlink managed by GWRC:

Route numbers: Route 7, and route 2
Location: Willis St by Chews Lane
Date: 2019-01-11
Time: Roughly 3:45pm

The CCTV footage requested is just the footage on Willis St between Mercer St and Lambton Quay.

Due to the fact that your contractors permanently delete the CCTV footage after 10 days, I would like this to be treated as an urgent request if possible.

As for whether this data is "held" by the agency, I refer to s 2(6) LGOIMA, also paraphrased on page 7 of the PDF available at http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/resou....
"Any information held by an independent contractor engaged by any local authority in his or her capacity as an independent contractor is, for the purposes of this Act, deemed to be held by the local authority.", paraphrased "Information which an independent contractor to an agency holds in that capacity is deemed to be held by the agency"
I note that all the bus contractors are independent contractors engaged by GWRC on behalf of Metlink and in their capacity of the independent contractors they hold the data from the black boxes.

Yours faithfully,

Hugh Davenport

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From: GWRC
Wellington Regional Council

Thanks for your email today Hugh,

I have passed this on to the records team now so they can gather this
information for you.

Once they have it all together they will be back in touch with yourself.

Kind Regards
Greater Wellington Regional Council
GREATER WELLINGTON REGIONAL COUNCIL

Te Pane Matua Taiao

Shed 39, 2 Fryatt Quay, Pipitea, Wellington 6011|PO Box 1164, Manners
Street, Wellington 6142

T: 04 384-5708|0800 496 734

[1]www.gw.govt.nz|[2]www.metlink.org.nz

Opening Hours, Monday to Friday 6am - 10pm, Saturday 8am-9pm, Sunday and
Public Holidays 8am-8pm

 

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Sent: Monday, 14 January 2019 1:07:01 PM
To: "OIA/LGOIMA requests at Wellington Regional Council"
<[Wellington Regional Council request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Requesting the CCTV footage
ofparticular buses
Dear Wellington Regional Council,

I would like to request the CCTV footage of the following buses operated
by a contractor for Metlink managed by GWRC:

Route numbers: Route 7, and route 2
Location: Willis St by Chews Lane
Date: 2019-01-11
Time: Roughly 3:45pm

The CCTV footage requested is just the footage on Willis St between
Mercer St and Lambton Quay.

Due to the fact that your contractors permanently delete the CCTV
footage after 10 days, I would like this to be treated as an urgent
request if possible.

As for whether this data is "held" by the agency, I refer to s 2(6)
LGOIMA, also paraphrased on page 7 of the PDF available at
http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/resou....
"Any information held by an independent contractor engaged by any local
authority in his or her capacity as an independent contractor is, for
the purposes of this Act, deemed to be held by the local authority.",
paraphrased "Information which an independent contractor to an agency
holds in that capacity is deemed to be held by the agency"
I note that all the bus contractors are independent contractors engaged
by GWRC on behalf of Metlink and in their capacity of the independent
contractors they hold the data from the black boxes.

Yours faithfully,

Hugh Davenport

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From: Sam Horsefield
Wellington Regional Council

Dear Hugh,

 

Acknowledgement of Request for Information

 

Thank you for your email dated 14 January 2019, requesting information
regarding the CTTV footage of particular buses

 

Your request is being followed-up and a reply will be sent to you shortly.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Sam Horsefield

 

 

for

Luke Troy

General Manager

Strategy

Greater Wellington Regional Council

 

 

 

 

 

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From: Nichola Powell
Wellington Regional Council


Attachment Response to OIA 2019 006.pdf
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Dear Mr Davenport

Attached is our response to your recent OIA 2019-006.

 

Yours sincerely

Nichola

 

Nichola Powell | Executive Assistant to General Manager Public Transport
 
GREATER WELLINGTON REGIONAL COUNCIL
Te Pane Matua Taiao
Level 2, 15 Walter Street

PO Box 11646, Manners St, Wellington 6142
T: 04 830 4179 | www.gw.govt.nz | www.metlink.org.nz

 

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Nigel Jones left an annotation ()

I've moved the response to this request for proper tracking.

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Hugh Davenport left an annotation ()

Have contacted ombudsman about all the S 2(6) refusals

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