Dear Mr Grainger
 
Please find attached the Ministry's letter transferring your OIA request
to the Department of Corrections and New Zealand Police.
 
Kind regards
 
 

Official Correspondence Team I Ministry of Justice

PO Box 180 I Wellington 

Phone +64 4 918 8800

[1]www.justice.govt.nz

>>> Joshua Grainger <[OIA #189 email]>
26/04/2012 11:19 a.m. >>>
     Dear Ministry of Justice,
    
     I would like to request under the Official Information Act some
     information related to the proposal to develop a sex offender
     register, reported today at
    
[2]http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics....
    
     I would like to request:
    
     a) All papers (including Cabinet Papers), proposals, memos, or
     other documents that explain this proposal.
    
     b) All correspondence with MPs, including Ministers and their
     staff, over this proposal. If there have been oral conversations
     over this issue I would like to request the times and dates at
     which these occurred, and the subjects discussed.
    
     c) All correspondence with agencies outside the Ministry of Justice
     over this issue, including both governmental and nongovernmental
     agencies.
    
     d) All costings available on this proposal.
    
     e) If it is not covered in the answer to request (a) I would like
     to request the proposed criteria for inclusion of people on this
     register, including 1) what offences qualify for inclusion on this
     register, 2) whether inclusion on the register will be
     retrospective, 3) if a conviction is necessary for inclusion on the
     register, or whether other sentences, like a discharge without
     conviction will qualify, 4) whether people remain on this register
     for life, or whether they fall off after a time period, 5) wheher
     youth offenders will be included on this register.
    
     To clarify in terms of timeframe, as I am aware a similar issue was
     raised from 2003-2006 around the Sex Offender Register Bill, which
     was ultimately rejected, I am interested in only this recent
     proposal, and so such information related to this bill can be
     rejected, unless it plays an impact in the development of this
     latest proposal.
    
     Feel free to contact me if you wish me to clarify my request. I
     look forward to receiving your response by the statutory deadline,
     which according to the Ombudsmen's Calcuator
    
(http://www.ombudsmen.parliament.nz/index...)
     is the 24th of May.
    
     Yours faithfully,
    
     Joshua Grainger
    
    
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