Luke
Joined FYI in 2013
Happy to assist requesters in composing their OIA requests to make them clear and intelligible to agencies. And an interest in assisting requesters on how best they can get the information they need.
Also interested in:
- organisations' internal processes, procedures, and practices, for dealing with the processing, handling and refusal of OIA requests.
- the existence of any legal tests to fulfil the statutory withholding provisions.
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E-mail communications
Awaiting classification.
I don't agree that re-scoping the request would be onerous. They haven't supplied any figures to indicate the volume of emails received across, say, a...
All information pertaining to me
Awaiting classification.
Elaine, you could be a lot more helpful. Let's hope TVNZ can identify some appropriate internal information sources to search that may contain your per...
429 State sector boards and committees
Successful.
The page was last updated 29 Nov 2016 (refer to the bottom).
The Ministry for Women is a small ministry and as such probably does not have the resou...
Taito Phillip Field
Successful.
Mr Rogers: Under 17(2)(a) of the OIA, would the Parole Board not have to state the reasons for the withholding of the location of the meeting and names...
All information pertaining to me
Awaiting classification.
Elaine: The advice from the Citizens Advice Bureau is correct. However TVNZ's angle is not asking you why you want it, they are asking you in what cont...
Thompson & Clark
Partially successful.
I do find the withholding of the letter from Doug Martin of behalf of the State Services Commission to be strange. I'm sure the content would not preju...
Library wage levels
Successful.
At least you got an answer twice than none at all!
Photos taken in Wellington on 9-13 October
Successful.
It would be interesting to know whether all 166 photographs and 21 video clips of various length are included on the DVDs.
What was the Ombudsman's r...
Do Maori own the Reserve Bank of New Zealand? Why does it have a Maori Head on the coat of arms?
Successful.
Nowhere in the links you provide does it say the bank is "completely independent". It says it has "statutory independence" which means it carries out i...
Seat kilometres per day of electric buses
Successful.
Thanks David for the explanation.
Aviation Security (Avsec) Effectiveness
Awaiting classification.
I agree with Cody.
I am not sure that withholding the information meets the test of s6(a)*. It would be interesting to see what the Ombudsman had to...
Seat kilometres per day of electric buses
Successful.
What do you mean by "seat kilometres"?
Determining level of general staff positions
Awaiting classification.
To expand on Duanna's response, I can add:
1. Key staff in the HR Team that manage job evaluations are likely to hold a copy of the "SP10 Job Evaluat...
Those are quite reasonable points Andrew.
In respect of the Ministry's decision to withhold document 6 under section 9(2)(h), I agree with your publi...
Howard
Like I said in an earlier response, your best bet is to make a complaint to the Ombudsman for them to review the Board's determination that yo...
RBNZ Governor Recruitment Process
Successful.
I am very disappointed that the Bank erred in its original decision as it was such an egregiously incorrect decision. In addition, the overly lengthy t...
Communications between Melissa Lee and Richard Griffin
Information not held.
Good points, Oliver
I'm left wondering if the requests referred to in the second paragraph of the letter are essentially Privacy Act requests, asking for private informati...
Official Residence of the Deputy Prime Minster
Partially successful.
Your request was answered to the extent that the Department said that it is a property in Bolton St, Wellington, but it wasn't clear whether it was Cro...
Cost of police car livery
Unusual response.
I think you did the right thing asking for the standard squad car.
The fact that they have released the cost of the rainbow car undermines their refu...
Cost of Rainbow police car launched for Pride festival.
Partially successful.
They also state that the car is a visual representation of the work the organisation does to undertakes to support and celebrate employees from "all ba...
Cost of Rainbow police car launched for Pride festival.
Partially successful.
The response was written in PR language and referred to metrics PR professionals use (audience share, etc), it was also signed from their head of publi...
Election Pledge on Civics Education
Refused.
Yes, I was thinking the same. :)
How many New Zealand citizens, residents and people visiting the country became homicide victims of paroled individuals between 1990 and 2018?
Information not held.
In addition to Mark's comment, the response from the Department is in the form of an image-PDF, resulting in an inability to copy URLs and paste them i...
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