Alex Harris
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This person's 423 Official Information requests (page 4)
Contract for leak investigation
Response by State Services Commission to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Kia ora Alex
OUR REF: SSCOIA 06/16/06
Please find attached SSC’s response to your OIA request dated 23 June
2016.
Nga mihi
Alistai...
Dear Alex
Please find attached Auckland DHB’s response to your OIA request dated 8
June 2016.
Regards
Elaine Keenan
PA to Marlene...
Statistics on seclusion
Response by Bay of Plenty District Health Board to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
On behalf of Helen Mason, Chief Executive
Alex,
Please find below answers to your questions as per your Official
Information Act request d...
Statistics on seclusion
Response by Counties Manukau District Health Board to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Alex
Please find attached our response to your OIA request below.
Kind regards
Lyn
Lyn Butler
Board Secretary I EA t...
Fisheries prosecution statistics
Response by Ministry for Primary Industries to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Alex Harris
On behalf of Stephanie Rowe, Director – Compliance, Ministry for Primary
Industries, please find attached MPI’s response to you...
Advice on relocating homeless beneficaries
Response by Ministry of Social Development to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Hi Alex,
We are anticipating that the information will be available by 27 July 2016. As this is a new programme certain aspects are as still being act...
Hi Alex,
Please see the attached Waitemata DHB response to your recent Official
Information Act request regarding seclusion units.
Regards
...
Use of social media monitoring tools by Customs
Response by New Zealand Customs Service to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Good evening Mr Harris
Please find attached a response to your request
Kind regards
Procedures and Support team
New Zealand Customs Ser...
Use of social media monitoring tools by DPMC (incl NZIC and NAB)
Response by Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Please find attached a scanned copy of the reply to your recent Official
Information Act request to the Department of the Prime M...
Use of social media monitoring tools by MPI
Response by Ministry for Primary Industries to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Good Afternoon Alex Harris,
On behalf of John Walsh, Director Communications and Channels, please find
a response to your recent Official informatio...
Use of social media monitoring tools by GCSB
Response by Government Communications Security Bureau to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached the response to your OIA request
Regards
This email has been filtered by SMX. For more information visit...
Use of social media monitoring tools by SIS
Response by New Zealand Security Intelligence Service to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Dear Alex Harris
Please find attached the Director’s response to your request dated 27 May 2016.
Yours sincerely
NZSIS
Use of social media monitoring tools by Corrections
Response by Department of Corrections to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Hello,
Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.
Ministerial Services Team
National Office
Department of...
Statistics on seclusion
Response by Waikato District Health Board to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex
Thank you for your request for information in relation to the use of
seclusion at Waikato DHB Mental Health and Addictions Services. ...
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Report on exceptional fees for EPA members
Response by Minister of State Services to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Good morning Mr Harris
Please find the attached response to your correspondence of 13 May to Hon
Bennett.
Kind Regards
Julia
Julia Ber...
Use of social media monitoring tools by NZDF
Response by New Zealand Defence Force to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Good morning Mr Harris,
Please find attached the response to your OIA request regarding social
media monitoring tools.
Kind regards,
Corporat...
The Ombudsman has reviewed and upheld Customs' decision. Their decision is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ffA-fCO4IpWnJuOE5wSUxpUk0/view?us...
Use of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes
Response by Wellington City Council to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Message forwarded by FYI admin:
From: Sarah Pearson-Coats <[1][email address]>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 at 12:14
Subject: Response to Alan Harris requ...
How many times has IRD requested information from NZ foreign trusts in the past year?
Response by Inland Revenue Department to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Good afternoon Mr Harris,
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received on 5 April 2016. I apologise for the...
Use of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes
Response by Hutt City Council to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Hi Alex
Please find HCC’s response to your recent request for information relating
to video/audio devices for dog control.
Attached also are our W...
Use of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes
Response by Whangarei District Council to Alex Harris on .
Long overdue.
This is an automated response, just to let you know we've received your email/form.
We will pass your message on to the team and they will get in touch...
Use of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes
Response by Hamilton City Council to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Alex,
Further to your information request of 16 March 2016 in respect of the use
of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes, I...
Use of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes
Response by New Plymouth District Council to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
RE: Official Information Act request - Use of video or audio surveillance
for dog control purposes
Dear Alex
Thank you for your email...
Use of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes
Response by Tauranga City Council to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Good afternoon,
Please see attached letter in response to your request for information
received on 16 March 2016.
Kind regards
J...
This person's 156 annotations (page 4)
This is what happens if you make lots of requests within a short timeframe, particularly if those requests are broad. I'd suggest scaling back your num...
Discrict court transcipt and judgement
Partially successful.
Court transcripts are not "official information" - see s2(6) OIA. You need to apply to the appropriate District Court Registrar under rule 3.19 of the...
Entertainment by accounting or legal consultancies
Waiting clarification.
You might be able to dig the details out of here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/1332-copy-of-gift-register
KFC Share Holdings
Request to Minister for Social Development by Bryce (Account suspended). Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Technically should have been refused on the basis that its not official information.
Grounds for search of electronic devices at the border
Partially successful.
See the definition of "working day" in the OIA. Any day between December 25 and january 15 doesn't count. Unfortunately, FYI's working day calculator d...
Implementation of Bazley Inquiry recommendations
Successful.
A complaint has now been lodged with the Ombudsman over the effective refusal of this request.
This will be interesting. The "cybersecurity" function (which would presumably be the justification for such a deployment) is only tangentially related...
Evil reptilian?
Information not held.
I predict a s18(f) refusal on the basis that the information cannot be found or does not exist.
GoCard card information
Successful.
I recommend taking it to the Ombudsman on the following grounds:
- the grounds cited do not appear to be relevant to all the information requested. In...
Grounds for search of electronic devices at the border
Partially successful.
Looking at this request, i would expect much of it to be refused or heavily redacted under s6(c) - maintenance of law and order. In that context, talki...
Contracts to members of the committee for auckland and New Zealand Council for infrastructure
Successful.
Their answer to Q 2 is dodgy. Surely they could have asked Spotless to tell them?
Policy on dogs
Successful.
I find it useful to include boilerplate statig that I am an NZ citizen in all my requests. Any refusal to accept that statement can then be challenged...
Likewise stolen. Perhaps we should ask all local authorities this question?
Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme
Refused.
This attempt to refuse for lack of "due particularity" is absurd. It is very clear what you want - correspondence within the department and to the Mini...
Air New Zealand Environment Trust
Refused.
This should have gone to the Minister of Ministerial Services
Ombudsman. There's no evidence they considered the very substantial public interest in release.
Email metadata
Refused.
And the request makes the media:
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/nbpol/1252428024-request-for-pm-s-email-data-declined
License plate tracking in NZ
Partially successful.
They haven't answered question 3 around retention policies.
if this is for Chch, why are you asking Wellington?
Parking Meters
Successful.
I think you're crossing the line into being vexatious here. They gave you a response back in May. You obviously don't like that response. But asking re...
Fingerprint manuals
Partially successful.
The s18(e) refusal of the chapter on "fingerprints for other agencies" is odd, given that they said they had such a chapter here: https://fyi.org.nz/re...
Party candidate lists 1996-2008
Long overdue.
You can just get this information from Wikipedia, or from the post-election reports on http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/
Titles of Cabinet Papers Presented to Last Cabinet and Cabinet Committee Meetings
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Ombudsman. 9(2)(f)(iv) is unlikely to apply to 2009 Cabinet business as it is unlikely to be still requiring a decision after 4 years. 9(2)(f) (ii) and...
Scoop has posted the form here: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1307/S00030/tracking-journalists-the-parliament-security-form.htm
Titles of Cabinet Papers Presented to Last Cabinet and Cabinet Committee Meetings
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
I think that's a failure of the duty to assist...
