Requests similar to 'Thompson & Clark' (page 9)
Recently your organisation submitted to the Law Commission's review of the Official Information Act. I would like to request the following informat...
Submission to OIA review
Request sent to Public Service Commission by Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Recently your organisation submitted to the Law Commission's review of the Official Information Act. I would like to request the following informat...
Recently your organisation submitted to the Law Commission's review of the Official Information Act. I would like to request the following informat...
Recently your organisation submitted to the Law Commission's review of the Official Information Act. I would like to request the following informat...
Submission to OIA review
Request sent to Television New Zealand Limited by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Recently your organisation submitted to the Law Commission's review of the Official Information Act. I would like to request the following informat...
Recently your organisation submitted to the Law Commission's review of the Official Information Act. I would like to request the following informat...
Charter school application
Request sent to Manukau Institute of Technology by Alex Harris on .
Information not held.
In its may 2013 issue of PPTA News, the PPTA reported that Manukau Institute of Technology had expressed interest in running a charter school. I wou...
Advice on anti-gang programme
Request sent to Minister of Police by Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
On 4 August the government announced a "Whole of Government action plan on tackling gangs". I would like to request the following information under...
Who can access th emotor vehicle register?
Request sent to New Zealand Transport Agency by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
NZTA has recently widened access to the motor vehicle register and associated personal information. Its opt-out website (https://transact.nzta.govt...
Learning Media is a State-Owned Enterprise and subject to the Official Information Act. Under Schedule 1 of the OIA, related companies of State ente...
Use of social media monitoring tools by Police
Request sent to New Zealand Police by Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
I would like to request the following information under the OIA:
* Does your agency use social media monitoring tools or services such as Signal,...
Use of social media monitoring tools by SIS
Request sent to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
I would like to request the following information under the OIA:
* Does your agency use social media monitoring tools or services such as Signal,...
Use of social media monitoring tools by GCSB
Request sent to Government Communications Security Bureau by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
I would like to request the following information under the OIA:
* Does your agency use social media monitoring tools or services such as Signal,...
Undercover agents in long-term sexual relationships
Request sent to New Zealand Police by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
A recent Supreme Court decision on the use of the "Mr Big" technique in the Wichman case noted that (para 126-127):
"There has been much controver...
How many schools were hacked in the past year?
Request sent to The Network for Learning Limited by Alex Harris on .
Information not held.
Yesterday Stuff reported that up to 36 schools had had their servers compromised last week ("Dozens of New Zealand schools hacked, access put up for...
Social media monitoring of beneficiaries
Request sent to Ministry of Social Development by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
It was reported this morning that MSD was monitoring beneficiaries via social media to detect fraud ("Beneficiaries are being monitored on social me...
Advice on banning "Odd Future"
Request sent to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Today the government banned the band "Odd Future" from entering New Zealand under sections 1691)(a)(iii) and (iv) of the Immigration Act 2009 ("Odd...
Advice on creation of Minister of National Security and Intelligence
Request sent to Prime Minister by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Today the Prime Minister announced the creation of a new Minister of National Security and Intelligence ("National Security and Intelligence role cr...
Sharing of metadata of New Zealand persons
Request sent to Government Communications Security Bureau by Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Today it was leaked that the Australian Signals Directorate offered to share "bulk, unselcted, unminimised metadata" - including "medical, legal or...
Police manual on "Police filming and audio recording of operations and events"
Request sent to New Zealand Police by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Recently you released a chapter list of the police manual in response to an OIA request. I would like to request the following chapter:
* "Police...
Kia ora Alex
Please see attached the University of Otago's response to your Official Information Act request dated 18 October 2022.
Ngā mihi
Kelsey...
Contract for leak investigation
Request sent to Public Service Commission by Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
On 8 May 2012, Paula Rebstock was appointed to investigate the leaking of information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (http://www.ssc...
Surveillance or Activities related to People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Request sent to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service by Yu Le Kong-Lim on .
Partially successful.
Tēnā koutou,
In light of further allegations of spying and surveillance by Thompson and Clark upon some activist groups including Oil Free Wellington...
Privacy of NZ arrivals data
Request sent to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Alex Harris on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
Section 21 of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 requires craft en route to New Zealand to provide specified information to Customs. The information re...
Retention of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) data
Request sent to New Zealand Transport Agency by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Thanks for your response to my recent OIA request about the use of ANPR technology by NZTA. I have two followup questions:
1) The response contai...
