Joshua Grainger
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This person's 119 Official Information requests (page 2)
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Follow up sent to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service by Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
Thank you very much for you response. It was very helpful, and I appreciate that you will let me know let me know when the new policy as available (...
Copies of every MOU that Corrections has signed
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Here's a index
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1 Health Dept
20 Housing NZ
45 LINZ
68 Parole Board
80 Police Dept
The Parole Board MOU was intriguing . It Speaks of th...
Number of times consent to appeal against sentence has been granted/declined
Response by Crown Law Office to Joshua Grainger on .
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My apologies – these figures are for the last financial year, not the last
“12 months”.
From: Mark Lillico
Sent: Tuesday, 10 December 2013 9:39...
Training/Policy Documents about X-Keyscore
Response by Government Communications Security Bureau to Joshua Grainger on .
Refused.
Please find attached our response to your OIA request
Regards
References
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Source code of Budget 2012 App
Refused.
Mike, the Android app links against and embeds a compiled version of libpdfview2.so as well as uses Java code from http://code.google.com/p/apv/ which...
Advice on Refusal to Renew Passports of Student Loan Defaulters
Response by Department of Internal Affairs to Joshua Grainger on .
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Good afternoon, Mr Grainger.
Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request
that was transferred to Inland Revenue on...
Recognition of Myanmar over Burma
Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Joshua Grainger on .
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Good Afternoon,
Please find attached a response to your OIA request from Hon Murray
McCully.
Regards,
Aimee Crooks
Aimee C...
Various GCSB Information
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At d(e) in the letter, there didn't seem to be a figure stated.
Emails to Andrea Vance
Long overdue.
At 6:52 in this press conference a reporter asks Mr Dunne which email address the emails were sent to and he replies that they were sent to his Parliam...
Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs minutes and agendas
Response by Ministry of Health to Joshua Grainger on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Grainger
Please find attached a scanned copy of the Ministry of Health's response
to your 13 July request for information (received by the M...
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 Luke C on .
Refused.
1. I do not agree with the assessment, and I'm not convinced that the withholding grounds apply.
2. The way I read the reponse is that Ms Kitteridge'...
RoC*Rol Formula and Briefings
Response by Department of Corrections to Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Grainger
Please find attached the Department’s response to your email dated 29 May
2013. The Offence Seriousness Table is attached in 3 par...
Correspondence regarding previous Myanmar OIA request
Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Joshua Grainger on .
Long overdue.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Thank you for your enquiry, and we regret the delay in responding to your
OIA request. We will get back to you on this as soon as pr...
Emails sent by Dunne from Ministerial Email Address
Response by Department of Internal Affairs to Joshua Grainger on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Grainger
Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request
of 11 June 2013.
Yours sincerely
...
Ministry of Education's Response to Ombudsman OIA Review
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Apologies for the delay. Here are the files:
https://mega.co.nz/#!HMkSjS7Y!bZqCjEgCwks3r6VaXz5O_EQxPitE_0kwb8VDTGDUbWw (27.7 MB)
https://mega.co.nz/...
Automatic Numberplate Recognition
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Just FYI - NZ Police District Commander of Counties Manukau, Superintendent John Tims stated in an interview with Kathryn Ryan on National Radio on Wed...
Sex Offender Register Proposal
Response by New Zealand Police to Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
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WARNING
The information contained in this email message is intended for the
ad...
Definition used for Child Exploitation Filtering System
Response by Department of Internal Affairs to Joshua Grainger on .
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Dear Mr Grainger
Thank you again for your official information request dated 10 April 2013.
My decision on your request is in the attached pdf d...
Hi Joshua
"Necessary and Desirable" is all available on our website at http://privacy.org.nz/the-privacy-act-and-codes/privacy-law-reform-resources/pr...
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WARNING
The information contained in this email message is intended for the
ad...
Warnings to National MPs about West Paupa
Response by Minister of Foreign Affairs to Joshua Grainger on .
Long overdue.
On behalf of Hon Murray McCully, thank you for your email. Your
correspondence has been noted.
Please be aware that the Minister receives a lar...
Police Vetting Information
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Memorandum of Understanding is available here: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/services/licencing-vetting/mou-agreement.doc
This respo...
Papers on Mixed-Ownership Model Withheld before election
Response by The Treasury to Joshua Grainger on .
Refused.
Dear Joshua Grainger
Please find attached the response to your request under the Official
Information Act.
Kind regards,
Maxine
Ma...
Messages to Embassies Regarding Kīngitanga Movement
Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Joshua Grainger on .
Successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear Joshua Grainger
Thank you for your email of 8 November 2012 in which you requested, under
the Official Information Act...
Giving of Customer Information to Police
Response by New Zealand Police to Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
Joshua
As indicated in my response, Police do not collect that data. We have over 10,000 employees, deal with over 200,000 recorded offences per year,...
This person's 104 annotations (page 2)
Police Officers Name from Officer ID
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Note that there is no requirement to either:
a) provide proof of identity to file an Official Information Act request. A request can be filed under a...
All documentation sent and received between Justice Minister Judith Collins and Chinese company Oravida
Partially successful.
FYI, Oravida is a New Zealand company not a Chinese company. They just operate in China.
Visa Application Information
Waiting clarification.
1) You should send this to the New Zealand Immigration Service, not the Minister of Immigration. They'll be the ones that hold the information.
2) Yo...
Pedigrees and passport data on plant varieties
Request to The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited by Edward Hammond. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Refused.
If they refuse to do it let me know and I'll resubmit the request under my name.
Ministry of Education's Response to Ombudsman OIA Review
Handled by post.
Apologies for the delay. Here are the files:
https://mega.co.nz/#!HMkSjS7Y!bZqCjEgCwks3r6VaXz5O_EQxPitE_0kwb8VDTGDUbWw (27.7 MB)
https://mega.co.nz/...
Lobbying on the Lobbying Disclosure Bill
Long overdue.
Here's a quote from the case that summarizes the situation:
"In New Zealand the Attorney-General's Act 1866 provided for the Attorney-General to be a...
Lobbying on the Lobbying Disclosure Bill
Long overdue.
No statutory basis, but that's because roles such as being a Minister of the Crown and the Attorney-General are largely creatures of convention rather...
Service providers in the Telco Interncept Bill
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Vikram Kumar. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Successful.
Depending on what you're looking for you could fight this. The Ministry would hold more informal documents, like emails internally between advisers, wh...
Emails to Andrea Vance
Long overdue.
Note: probably shouldn't be too hopeful of the success of this OIA request. In order for the Minister of Revenue to be said to 'hold' the information u...
Advice on mining protest ban
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The Minister makes the mistake that most authorities make of simply stating s9(2)(g)(i) and s9(2)(f)(iv) as grounds to withhold without justifying exac...
Process to determine secure funding for 24 hour rape phone line in Auckland
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Actually, just one more thing. The Ministry uses s9(2)(g)(i) to withhold information between an official and a member at ASAH. Recently, the Court of A...
Process to determine secure funding for 24 hour rape phone line in Auckland
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Just a quick note about the withholding of advice under s9(2)(f)(iv) and s9(2)(g)(i). I recently completed a legal research project on these two ground...
Manukau Police Assessment Unit
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The s6(c) withholding of the names of the manuals that Threat Assessment Unit uses seems very dodgy to me. For a start, as far as I am aware, the names...
Number of requests for information
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This information is going to be rather unlikely to be available. Due to the broad nature of New Zealand's Official Information Act a simple request suc...
Recognition of Myanmar over Burma
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Successful.
I've got a complaint in with the Ombudsman at the moment.
I suspect that there maybe a political motive for withholding: I filed a complaint in Januar...
Police Vetting Communications
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Rang Katrine.
I clarified that: I was interested in all communications on the Police Vetting system in general, but I would be particularly interest...
Details of Operational UAV/Drone Use
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The fact that a matter is before the courts is not a reason to withhold under the OIA. Rather it must be shown that the release of the information woul...
Police Vetting Information
Partially successful.
Memorandum of Understanding is available here: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/services/licencing-vetting/mou-agreement.doc
This respo...
Ministry of Education's Response to Ombudsman OIA Review
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I will upload the documents and annotate them to this request. If I have not within a reasonable period, and others are interested in the documents, ju...
It might be worth pointing out here case W37113, and section 16(2) of the OIA.
Section 16(2) sets out that if the item requested is a 'document' then...
Police Vetting Information
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Note that I got the section for internal rules wrong: it is section 22 instead of section 23. Section 23 concerns the reason for a decision affecting a...
Giving of Customer Information to Police
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Emailed out of band to confirm my details.
Text messages sent by Cr Michael Laws
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Another thing to note is that the Deputy Ombudsmen explicitly refers to Cr Michael Laws comments in his speech to SOLOGM: http://www.ombudsman.parliame...
Text messages sent by Cr Michael Laws
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They merely state that text messages aren't covered by the LGOIMA, without providing any reasons. Such a duplicitous response is intellectually dishone...
Tutors' notes for QUAN102 Tutorial
Refused.
Yep, which exactly why I think I'm in the right. Will be interesting to see if I'm declined under s9(k) though; as that has been the suggested ground f...
