Submission to OIA review
Alex Harris made this Official Information request to Privacy Commissioner
The request was successful.
      From: Alex Harris
      
    
    Dear Privacy Commissioner,
Recently your organisation submitted to the Law Commission's review of the Official Information Act. I would like to request the following information under the OIA:
* a copy of your submission
* all drafts, advice, and internal communications (including emails) relating to that submission
I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the fyi.org.nz website.
With regards to s12 of the OIA, I am an NZ citizen and in NZ.
Yours faithfully,
Alex Harris
        From: Katrine Evans
        Privacy Commissioner
      
    
    Hi Alex
 
Thanks for your request for our submission, and other information, on the
 Law Commission’s OIA review. I’ve attached a copy of the submission itself
 as a starting point for you.
 
I’m still checking for other information covered by your request. Since
 the request is quite wide, it would help to know if there is something you
 are particularly interested in. For instance, if you just wanted to find
 out about the process that we used to develop our submission, I could
 easily explain this without needing to bombard you with bits of paper that
 may not be particularly informative. Or if you were interested in why
 people came to their views on particular questions that the Law Commission
 posed, again I could explain how we dealt with it, or find the relevant
 information for you, or tell you that we didn’t have a view. (As you’ll
 see from the submission, we didn’t answer every question. We just focused
 on the questions and the parts of the OIA that interact with the Privacy
 Act or that might have a consequent effect on privacy or our work).
 
Any help would be much appreciated, particularly when it comes to finding
 emails. Or if you now have enough for your purposes, then let me know.
 
Kind regards
Katrine
 
 
Katrine Evans
Assistant Commissioner (Legal and Policy)
 
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      From: Alex Harris
      
    
    Dear Katrine Evans,
Thanks for your response. In response to your query about drafts etc, I'm primarily interested in the process, and the views expressed (particularly those which might not have made it into the final submission). I'm quite interested in seeing what government bodies _really_ think of the OIA, and the formal submisisons are only part of that picture.
Yours sincerely,
Alex Harris
        From: Katrine Evans
        Privacy Commissioner
      
    
    Thanks, Alex - that helps. 
Cheers
Katrine
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        From: Katrine Evans
        Privacy Commissioner
      
    
    Dear Alex
 
Here is the rest of the information that we hold that is covered by your
 request. I hope you find it useful. My apologies for the slight delay.
 
As well as our submission of 7 February, we made an interim submission to
 the Law Commission, which we have included here together with
 correspondence relating to it.
 
Our process was to seek input from various staff members, which were then
 considered when we drafted the final submission. The comments in some of
 the documents reflect these views. Staff views do not, of course,
 represent the views of the Commissioner - the Commissioner's views are
 those that were included in the final submission.
 
We don't have any drafts of the submission, so we cannot help you with
 that. We have only withheld one piece of information, which is a staff
 member’s name on one of the templates. (For the most part staff did not
 fill in their names where it says "allocated to" on the templates). The
 names of senior staff members have been left in.
 
Kind regards
Katrine
 
 
 
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Things to do with this request
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