Alex Harris
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This person's 422 Official Information requests (page 5)
Use of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes
Response by Auckland Council to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Good morning Alex,
Further to your email to us on 16 March, your LGOIMA request has been cancelled as the information you are seeking does not exist f...
Use of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes
Response by Hastings District Council to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris
In response to your LGOIMA request of this morning regarding video and
audio surveillance devices for dog control purposes.
...
Use of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes
Response by Palmerston North City Council to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Alex,
In reference to your LGOIMA request for information relating to
video/audio surveillance for dog control purposes I can confirm that...
Use of video or audio surveillance for dog control purposes
Response by Dunedin City Council to Alex Harris on .
Long overdue.
I am currently out of the office, returning Friday morning.
Please contact my PA Kelly Taylor on 03 474 3434 or at
k[1][email address] for assistan...
Social media monitoring of beneficiaries
Response by Ministry of Social Development to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Tēnā koe Alex Harris,
Please find attached the Ministry's response to your Official Information Act request of 10 February 2016
Nā mātou noa, nā
Of...
Hi Alex,
attached is the response to your request.
Kind regards,
Sophie
Advisor
Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
DX Box SX10088 | Wellington
T...
Statistics on SIS phone hotline and public contribution form
Response by New Zealand Security Intelligence Service to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex Harris
Please find attached the Director's response to your request.
Yours sincerely
NZSIS
Advice on US ship visits
Response by New Zealand Defence Force to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear Alex,
Please find attached a response to your OIA request, we apologise for the
delay in responding to you.
Kind reg...
Membership of Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control
Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear Alex,
Please find attached a response to your OIA request.
Kind regards,
Executive Services
Executive Ser...
Advice on OIA charging policy
Response by Reserve Bank of New Zealand to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Hello Mr Harris
The first of the two previous emails to you included the document named
“Charging for OIA requests - SMG discussion note - SK co...
2015 Statistics on beneficiary drug tests
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 of 17 December 2015.
Nā mātou noa, nā
O...
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached a response to your request.
Kind regards
Chief Customs Officer
Procedures and Support
Activities of Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control
Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Please see the attached letter and document in respect of your OIA
request of 4 November 2015
Executive Services Division
New...
Surveillance of "courtsiders"
Response by New Zealand Police to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Harris
I have been asked to send you the attached further reply to an information
request you made to Police I February 2015.
Yours si...
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
_________________________...
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...
This person's 155 annotations (page 5)
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...
Supervised Access Centres and Care for Kids
Handled by post.
According to the Ombudsman's guidelines, agencies must respond in the manner requested, unless it would impair efficient administration or undermine th...
Will be rejected. UCSA is not a subsidiary of University of Canterbury, but an independent incorporated society (registration # 219444); it is therefo...
s99(b)(iv) allows disclosure "as provided under this Act or any other Act".
Who can access th emotor vehicle register?
Successful.
The link to gazette notices of special authorisations:
http://www.dia.govt.nz/MSOS118/On-Line/NZGazette.nsf/vSearchView?SearchView&Query=%28Motor+Veh...
Police policy chapter manuals
Awaiting internal review.
The police seem to have ignored s18B of the Act, requiring them to consult before rejecting a request on the grounds of 18(f)
http://www.legislation....
Performance of functions to prevent serious crime
Partially successful.
Response has been linked to the wrong request and is here:
http://fyi.org.nz/request/403/response/3347/attach/3/2012%2011%2016%20OIA%20Request%20Resp...
Request for information relating to NZ Land Army (WW2)
Information not held.
Lorraine: Annotating a request here will not get a response from the government. You need to either file your own OIA, or trawl the National Archives....
A glitch in someone's email? Or just denial? Either way, resubmission is likely to get an answer quicker than the Ombudsman.
Officials' Committees Agendas
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
I think this is one for the Ombudsman
Tutors' notes for QUAN102 Tutorial
Refused.
members of academic staff are explicitly covered in the definition of "Official Information". See also s2(4) OIA which calrifies that information held...
Giving of Customer Information to Police
Partially successful.
Its not in "Disclosing personal and official information"; we've already seen that one:
http://fyi.org.nz/request/policy_for_handling_oia_requests#in...
Refugee Detention Information
Partially successful.
Also, check the Ministerial consultation / risk assessment on p 50 - 55. On p54 there's some specific information about FYI which is withheld as "free...
Refugee Detention Information
Partially successful.
So they decided to call the health & safety appendix to the mass-arrival plan "out of scope" to avoid any substantive response to your request. Despit...
Given that the requester has stated that they are a citizen and resident in NZ, asking them for proof without any evidence to the contrary is prima fac...
New Zealand Police Manual of Best Practice
Partially successful.
The police will in fact provide chapters electronically if it is requested:
http://fyi.org.nz/request/police_manual_on_police_filming#incoming-3221
PR Plan for Kim Dotcom Arrest
Successful.
The use of 9(2)(g)(i) to redact information looks dodgy, and in one case (the number of people arrested) blatantly incorrect. I suggest challenging th...
