Alex Harris
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This person's 424 Official Information requests
Privacy policy and assessment for smart homes
Request sent to Housing New Zealand Corporation by Alex Harris on .
Awaiting response.
A news report today reports that Housing NZ has smart home sensors installed in 160 homes and is planning to roll the program out to 2,000 homes by...
Good afternoon Alex,
I apologise sincerely again for the time that it has taken to be able to provide this information to you and thank you for your p...
Tēnā koe Alex Harris
Please find attached the Ministry’s response to your Official Information Act request. Once again, I sincerely aplogise for the d...
Tēnā koe
On behalf of Hon Andrew Little MP, please find attached an OIA response
from the Minister to you.
Note that you may require P...
HI Alex
Please find attached our reply to your OIA request on 9 January 2019,
apologies for the delay in sending the reply.
Thank you
...
Good afternoon,
On behalf of Gray Harrison, Acting Director Compliance Services, please
find attached an extension to the timeframe of your Offi...
ZX Security
Response by Southern Response Earthquake Services Limited to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Hi Alex,
Please find attached our response to your OIA request.
Kind regards,
Kelsey Church
Company Secretary
Southern Response Earthquake Services...
Auckland onramp data collection contract and advice
Response by New Zealand Transport Agency to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Alex
Please find attached the response to your request of 15 January 2019 for
information under the Official Information Act 1982.
Re...
Dear Mr Harris,
Thank you for your email received on 9 January 2019 in which you requested
information relating to:
"whether your agency h...
Dear Alex Harris
We have just noticed on the FYI website your requests to us of 18 August and 28 September 2018 for information relating to Thompson an...
Kia ora Alex
Thank you for your request about ZX Security Ltd which we received on 9 January 2019. You asked us -
* whether your agency has ever empl...
Dear Alex
Please find attached a response from Rachel Kelly, Manager, Government
Relations, Housing New Zealand, to your email of 10 January 201...
ZX Security
Response by Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Alex Harris,
Under the OIA, you asked as to whether GNS Science “has ever employed ZX
Security Ltd to provide training in social media or o...
ZX Security
Request to National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited by Alex Harris. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Technically this is a refusal because the information does not exist. But that's a highly informative refusal, and exactly the sort of thing I am hopin...
Weekly briefings for "children" portfolio Feb - Aug 2018
Response by Tracey Martin to Alex Harris on .
Dear Alex
Attached is the PDF file as requested. Please let me know if you have any further issues with opening it.
Kind regards,
Annika
Annika Rods...
Weekly briefings for "Minister for Women" portfolio: Feb - Aug 2018
Response by Eugenie Sage to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Kia ora Alex,
This is the last batch of information.
Ngā mihi,
Meredith
From: Meredith Lawry
Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2018 5:02...
Weekly briefings for "children" portfolio
Follow up sent to Tracey Martin by Alex Harris on .
Could you resend this please? The file seems to be corrupted.
Yours sincerely,
Alex Harris
Weekly climate change briefings: June - August 2018
Response by James Shaw to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Kia ora Alex,
Please find attached a response to your OIA request of 11 October 2018.
Kind regards
Rachel
Rachel Ward | Private Secretary, Climate C...
Thompson & Clark
Response by Environmental Protection Authority to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Good afternoon Alex,
Please find attached a letter from the Environmental Protection Authority
regarding your request for information.
If...
Thompson & Clark
Partially successful.
I do find the withholding of the letter from Doug Martin of behalf of the State Services Commission to be strange. I'm sure the content would not preju...
Thompson & Clark
Response by National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex,
Please find attached our letter of response.
The information referred to in the letter which is being released is
accessible v...
Thompson & Clark
Response by The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
The contents of this e-mail are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege.
If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, dissemi...
Kia ora Alex,
I refer to your request under the Official Information Act (the Act) dated 13 August for:
“all information relating to, or provided by...
Thompson & Clark
Response by New Zealand Forest Research Institute Limited to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Please see attached letter and attachments.
This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressees
named above. It may contai...
Dear Alex
Please find attached the response to your request under the OIA.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in responding.
Kind...
This person's 156 annotations
The response to this followup request will be useful if you want to take this to the Ombudsman. 11.3 (d) of the user agreement allows release of confid...
ZX Security
Request to National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited by Alex Harris. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Technically this is a refusal because the information does not exist. But that's a highly informative refusal, and exactly the sort of thing I am hopin...
Thompson & Clark
Request to Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited by Alex Harris. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
NewsRoom story: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/07/18/158122/media-hiccup-derailed-gns-spy-firm-plans
Thompson & Clark
Successful.
Response here, on the Canterbury DHB request:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/8066-thompson-clark#incoming-26576
Thompson & Clark
Successful.
I'm happy for you to start the process today.
Thompson & Clark
Partially successful.
Herald Story: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12083126
Documents Relating to Action on Defence Policies Since 2017 General Election
Partially successful.
As it stands this is guaranteed to be rejected as requiring substantial collation and research, because it asks for too much. I suggest that you pick _...
Minister Weekly Briefings
Refused.
You should challenge this with the Ombudsman. s9(2)(f)(iv) applies only to "advice" (and then only when it is under "active consideration"). But a look...
If the board is appointed by the council, they're a CCO and covered directly by LGOIMA.
If the three members who are councillors are on the board bec...
All files relating to so-called ABC arrests and trials from 1977-1978
Information not held.
While MoD was responsible for signals intelligence at the time, the relevant records may have been transferred to GCSB. In fact, I'm surprised they wer...
The Ombudsman has reviewed and upheld Customs' decision. Their decision is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ffA-fCO4IpWnJuOE5wSUxpUk0/view?us...
On what basis are you informed of prison visits by MPs?
Partially successful.
As the response did not address any of the actual questions asked, this as gone to the Ombudsman.
Copy of photo from Operation Tam
Successful.
You do not need to provide a postal address. If you have requested information in electronic format, then an agency must provide it in that format.
This is defamatory
Refused.
This request will be unsuccessful. The Ombudsman has previously ruled that journalist's sources are protected under s9(2)(ba)(ii). See case W3043, whic...
If they can show it to you then they have a copy. If they have a copy, then it is "held". And as they are an agency, then anything they hold is "offici...
Advice on childhood obesity package
Successful.
Hi,
This OIA request was due on November 18, but no response (or acknowledgement) has been received. will I be getting a response soon, or do I need...
T: I've reviewed my email, and it appears this complaint has not even been allocated a number. Other complaints from around that time have been process...
Subsidiaries of Learning Media
Refused.
Result of Ombudsman's investigation from 2014: no-one can respond to OIA requests to liquidated companies:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ffA-fCO...
This has gone to the Ombudsman.
The Ministry of Justice guidelines for charging for OIA requests can be found here:
http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/c/cha...
Information concerning drug search at Ronald McDonald House, Riddiford St, Wellington
Information not held.
You are not legally required to provide this information for an OIA request, and I would recommend against providing it. If the police refuse your requ...
Immigration detention statistics
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Alex Harris. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
This has gone to the Ombudsman
Update: The Ombudsman has upheld Customs refusal under section 18(f). They've also upheld the initial refusal under section 18(f) on the basis that it...
Surveillance of "courtsiders"
Partially successful.
This has now gone back to the Ombudsman.
Pretty obvious: https://fyi.org.nz/request/2653-account-of-mr-key-s-personal-detail-in-regards-to-the-ponytail-pulling
Asking for the policies - what...
