Alex Harris
Joined FYI in 2011
I am a New Zealand Citizen
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This person's 383 Official Information requests (page 4)
Privacy of advance passenger processing data
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris,
Please find attached the response from the Ministry of Business,
Innovation and Employment to your Official Information Act requ...
Advice on return of New Zealand s501 detainees from Australia
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Alex Harris
Via: [1][FOI #3359 email]
Ref: DOIA 1516-0658
Dear Mr Harris,
Attached is the Ministry’s response to your 12 November 2...
Privacy of NZ arrivals data
Follow up sent to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Alex Harris on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
This request has been sent ot the wrong agency. There's no need to transfer it, as a request has already been lodged with customs.
Yours faithfull...
Dear Alex Harris
Please find attached a copy of the email and response to your request sent
on 30 October 2015. Unfortunately it appears the origin...
Intenational evidence and advice on economic benefits of pandas
Response by Prime Minister to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
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How many times have police requested data from banks without a warrant in the last year?
Response by New Zealand Police to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Alex
You asked the following:
1. How many times have the police requested customer information from New Zealand banks without a warrant, production o...
Number of domestic intelligence warrant applications refused or modified
Response by Minister in Charge of the NZ Security Intelligence Service (SIS) to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris
Please see the attached response to your OIA request of 5 November 2015.
Yours sincerely
NZSIS
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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.
Advice on increased refugee quota
Response by Minister of Immigration to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex
On behalf of Hon Michael Woodhouse, Minister of Immigration, thank you for
your Official Information Act request of 10 September 2015...
Workshops on regional research institutes
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Good afternoon Alex,
Please find attached to this email, a scanned response letter to your OIA
request from 11 August 2015.
I hope you fin...
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached a response to your request of 4 August 2015.
Teresa McMahon
Ministerial Services
Police National Headqu...
Audit of NZDF weaponry
Response by New Zealand Defence Force to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached a response to your OIA request of 4 August 2015.
Regards,
Corporate and Ministerial Services
Office of...
Advice on regional research institutes
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris,
Please find attached response to your OIA request dated 18 June 2015.
Please also find attached the documents related to your re...
Policy on providing staff contact details to clients
Response by Ministry of Social Development to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Harris
Attached is the reply to you email of 1 July 2015.
Yours sincerely
Pia Wihapi
Advisor
Ministerial and Executive Se...
Statistics on fraud by MBIE staff
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris,
I can confirm there was no monetary value to the fraud stated in the Ministry's response.
Kind regards
David Baird
Ministerial Advis...
Damage assessment of Snowden revelations
Response by Minister for National Security and Intelligence to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
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Statistics on fraud at Ministry of Justice
Response by Ministry of Justice to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Hi Alex
Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request.
Cheers
Antony
[1]Description: Descripti...
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...
This person's 149 annotations (page 4)
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...
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...
