Alex Harris
Joined FYI in 2011
I am a New Zealand Citizen
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This person's 365 Official Information requests (page 4)
Advice on border clearance levy
Response by Minister of Customs to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex Harris
Attached please find the response from the Hon Nicky Wagner, Minister of
Customs, to your OIA request for advice on the Border...
Amount spent on cellphones by Prime Minister
Request to Minister Responsible for Ministerial Services by Alex Harris. Annotated by Oliver Lineham on .
Partially successful.
That's because the agency is the Parliamentary Service, which is not subject to the OIA - so he cannot formally transfer the request.
However, we do...
Statistics or records of digital searches made between January 1 and January 14, 2015
Response by New Zealand Customs Service to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached Customs' response to your request.
Regards
Chief Customs Officer
Procedures and Support
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
Statistics on requested moves for health reasons
Response by Housing New Zealand Corporation to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Dear Alex
Please find attached a response from Kay Read, General Manager Tenancy
Services, in reply to your request of 11 June 2015.
Please do n...
Advice on fund to facilitate Auckland housing development
Response by Minister for Building and Housing to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Hi Alex
Please find attached a response to your OIA request regarding Auckland
Crown land.
Kind regards
Charlotte Kirby Thomson
Pr...
Costs of not acting on climate change
Follow up sent to Minister for Climate Change Issues by Alex Harris on .
Long overdue.
A response to this OIA request was due by June 18, but no response or extension letter (or even acknowledgement) appears to have been received. Will...
Dear Alex
Please find attached a response to your OIA request from the Hon Anne
Tolley.
Regards,
Office of Hon Anne Tolley |Minister for Social...
Copies of staff hospitality declaration forms
Response by Canterbury District Health Board to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Harris,
As per our original response dated 11 June 2015, all such staff declarations are held at a Head of Department/Service Manager level and...
Statistics on fraud at TPK
Response by Ministry of Māori Development to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Tēnā koe Alex,
Please find attached a response to your query regarding allegations of
fraud against TPK staff.
Ngā mihi
Rangi
...
Maybe a more open-ended question would get the information needed. When its paid they are Police officers and should uphold the law, I presume there is...
Good afternoon Alex
I am pleased to advise you that the information you seeks will be part of
a proactive public release of Budget 2015, on 9 Ju...
Look forward to all this information being publicly released, and not just a summary.
Alex, this decision is very interesting and will have implications for many requests. Are you able to publish the decision somewhere?
Correspondence on MMP recommendations 2012 - 2014
Response by Minister of Justice to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Robyn Tiller
Private Secretary l Office of Hon Amy Adams I Minister of Justice I Minister for Courts I Minister of Broadcasting I Minister for Communi...
How many employees does the TRC have?
Response by Tāmaki Redevelopment Company Limited to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Alex
Thank you for your enquiry 30 April 2015 submitted via the fyi.org.nz website.
Please find response attached.
Sincerely,
Deanne Douglas...
PR plan for NZDF casulaties / killings in Iraq
Response by New Zealand Defence Force to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Harris,
I refer to your OIA request of 15 April requesting information about the
Defence Force’s public relations plans regarding Iraq. Pl...
Dear Mr Harris
Please see attached response to your email of 15 April 2015.
Kind regards,
Cameron
Cameron Oldfield | Private Secreta...
[Resend] Cabinet papers brought in the last 12 months
Follow up sent to Minister for Racing by Alex Harris on .
Long overdue.
FYI is reporting that it has not received a response yet to my OIA request of 16 February for information on recent cabinet papers. The FYI website...
Does NAB provide assessments on the risks of domestic terrorism in New Zealand?
Response by Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Harris
Please see the attached response to your OIA request of 17 November 2014,
which was transferred to this Service on 26 January 20...
I will update FYI's email address for the DHB as per the response above.
It seems emailing direct to the CEO and complaining to the ombudsman has cau...
Agent of a Foreign Power (AFoP) authorisations
Response by Government Communications Security Bureau to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Please find attached the response to your OIA request
Regards
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Guidelines on interpreting and translation
Withdrawn by the requester.
Re-sent here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/2419-resend-guidelines-on-interpreting-and-translation/
Will new surveillance system be used for parking or speeding enforcement?
Response by Auckland Transport to Alex Harris on .
Information not held.
Good morning Mr Harris,
Please find attached a response from Auckland Transport.
Kind regards
Jo Garwood | Auckland Transport
6 Henderson Va...
How many extentions to extend a passport cancellation has the Minister made?
Response by Minister of Internal Affairs to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
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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...
Email Request Vance
Withdrawn by the requester.
Note that a) this will only apply to emails sent in a Ministerial capacity; and b) the relevant period is in fact early April 2013, not May - June 2013...
Entertainment by accounting or legal consultancies
Waiting clarification.
If extracting the require dinformation from the monthly gift register is time consuming, then the easiest thing to do is to request the entire gift reg...
Advice on access agreements to prospect on schedule 4 land
Withdrawn by the requester.
This seems to have been sent to the wrong email address; Kate Wilkinson was not Minister of Conservation at the time. I've since found an answer in a...
Adoption of cats from concourse
Refused.
The barrier to declare a request vexatious is very high, "such that no reasonable person could properly treat it as bona fide" according to the Ombudsm...
Payroll error statistics
Request to Capital and Coast District Health Board by Maria-Jane Brodie. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
This is unlawful. An agency can only extend the time-limit once.
Details of Operational UAV/Drone Use
Successful.
Check the Ombudsman's guidelines - prejudice to the fair trial rights of the accused are prejudice to maintenance of the law, and so covered under s6(c...
Police chapter manuals
Waiting clarification.
The police want to charge
"for each business owner to read, review, and edit/redact any information to be withheld, and for that to be checked by an...
Novopay contract
Successful.
The contract can be found here: http://www.minedu.govt.nz/theMinistry/NovopayProject/ProjectInitiation.aspx
Request for information relating to NZ Land Army (WW2)
Information not held.
Annotaters: this is a site for making OIA requests, not a genealogy / connections site. If you want information, you need to either file a very specif...
advice on a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol
Partially successful.
Cabinet papers are nominally held by the Minister, and so its a common practice where the request is politically sensitive to transfer to them so they...
