Alex Harris
Joined FYI in 2011
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This person's 383 Official Information requests
Weekly briefings: November 2017 - January 2018
Response by Julie Anne Genter to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex,
On behalf of the Minister for Women, Hon Julie Anne Genter, please find
attached a response and attachments for your request of 7 Mar...
Complaints about Mike Joy
Response by Environmental Protection Authority to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Good morning Alex,
Please find attached the response to your request for information.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesita...
Weekly briefings for "children" portfolio
Response by Tracey Martin to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex
On behalf of Hon Tracey Martin, Minister for Children, please find attached correspondence for your attention.
Kind regards
Bibiana Marsh...
Advice on irrigation / water storage
Response by Damien O'Connor to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex Harris
Please find attached response to your Official Information Act request.
Andrew Barrowclough | Adviser, Official Informatio...
Weekly climate change briefings: November - December 2017
Response by James Shaw to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr. Harris,
You will find attached the response from the Hon. James Shaw to your
request for information under the Official Information Act...
Cost of processing LGOIMA requests
Successful.
So for non-LGOIMA staff is that 21% of their median salary?
Dear Alex Harris
Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request
to Rt Hon Winston Peters, Minister for Racing, received 30...
Register of deferred transfers
Response by Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Ref: 17/18-0225
Kia ora Mr Harris
Please find attached the response to your request for official information
from Archives New Zealand....
ODESC and watch group meetings
Response by Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex Harris
Please find attached a scanned copy of the reply to your recent Official
Information Act 1982 request to the Department of the...
Dear Alex
Please see attached response to your Official Information Act request, as
well as the documents outlined in the response.
Ki...
Weekly updates to Minister of Climate Change
Response by James Shaw to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Kia ora Mr Harris
Thank you for your OIA request of 29 November 2017.
Please find attached a letter in response from Hon James Shaw, as wel...
Dear Mr Harris
Thank you for your Official Information Act request dated 27 November
2017. You requested the following:
“According to your...
Briefing on Manus Island refugees
Response by Iain Lees-Galloway to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex,
Please find attached an OIA, as per your request 26 November 2017,
Kind regards
[1]Crest Office Hon Iain Lees-Galloway...
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached a response to your request for official information
that was transferred to the Department of Internal Affai...
Policy for handling queries by police
Response by Hutt District Health Board to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Good morning
Please find attached a response to your OIA request from 28 September
Many thanks
Kristine McGregor | Executive Assistant | Hutt Vall...
Information sharing protocol with police
Response by Ministry of Social Development to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Tēnā koe Alex Harris
Please find attached the Ministry’s response to your Official Information Act request.
Nā mātou noa, nā
Official and Parliamen...
Hi Alex, see the list of potential road names as requested, thanks
Richard
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Hi Alex, please find attached the Waipa DC Road Naming Policy as
requested. This includes road renaming. The policy is currently being
reviewed, bu...
Hi Alex, have you had a reply from the Ombudsman about this?
Dear Alex
Please see our response to your OIA request. Many thanks.
Deborah Rogers | Information Advisor | Ōtākaro Limited
E: [email address]...
Submission to OIA review
Request to Airways Corporation of New Zealand Limited by Alex Harris. Annotated by Oliver Lineham on .
Airways has contacted FYI.org.nz to advise this request was not received as we used an incorrect email address. We do not have email logs back to 2012...
Policy for handling OIA requests
Successful.
An updated version of this document has been released: https://fyi.org.nz/request/5237-guidelines-for-processing-information-requests#incoming-17095
On what basis are you informed of prison visits by MPs?
Partially successful.
While this subsequent response addresses the questions to a greater degree than the first response, I am left feeling she does not directly answer the...
I clarified with the Office of the Ombudsman and they responded that AIAL is not subject to the OIA: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3115074-20...
Advice on lost property sales at airports
Partially successful.
I've tried to narrate the story that these documents reveal here: http://www.pundit.co.nz/content/worser-and-worser
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Minister Weekly Briefings
Awaiting classification.
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
Awaiting classification.
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...
Communication information
Refused.
Followup request aimed at extracting underlying policy:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/2763-policy-on-providing-staff-contact-details-to-clients/
Implimentation of recommendations of report on MMP Minister of Justice on 29 October 2012
Long overdue.
The information you requested has been provided in response to my followup.
Surveillance of "courtsiders"
Partially successful.
This has now gone to the Ombudsman.
Update: the Ombudsman has sent me their provisional ruling upholding the decision to withhold under s18(f). I'm challenging that because they've includ...
Implimentation of recommendations of report on MMP Minister of Justice on 29 October 2012
Long overdue.
Followup request:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/2662-correspondence-on-mmp-recommendations-2012-2014/
Abolish ACC?
Long overdue.
Try looking at the "Bills" section on the Parliament website:
http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/legislation/bills
This goes back to 2002.
Otago Rural Fire Authority under OFA
Partially successful.
The constitution of the ORFA is in its Gazette Notice:
https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2014-au3259
They're not a CCO (and so not covered by LGOIMA...
