Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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This person's 76 Official Information requests
Decision to start general arming of Christchurch frontline officers
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Awaiting classification.
Kia ora Mark,
Please find attached a letter and seven documents in relation to your
Official Information Act request of 28 February 2019.
...
Tactical Options Reporting Data January-December 2019
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Awaiting classification.
Kia ora Mark
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by New Zealand Police on 19 April 2021.
Kind reg...
Organ donor preference on driver licences March 2021
Response by New Zealand Transport Agency to Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Dear Mark
Please find attached the response to your request of 1 March 2021 for
information under the Official Information Act 1982.
Regar...
Double-bunking and sexual assault 2020
Response by Department of Corrections to Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Kia ora Mark,
I refer to your complaint to the Office of the Ombudsman regarding the
adequacy of Corrections’ response to your queries about the...
Temporary carriage of firearms directives records January 2021
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Tēnā koe Mark
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by New Zealand Police on 31 January 2021.
N...
Tactical Options Reporting Data January-December 2018 follow-up questions
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Tēnā koe,
Thank you for the update. I've received the response now, and I really appreciate the thorough answers to all of my questions.
Ngā mihi,...
Tactical Options Reporting Data January-December 2018
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Dear Mark Hanna
Please find attached correspondence.
Ngā mihi
Billy Clemens
Information Management Coordinator: Response and Operat...
OIA Request: Custodial Practice Manual 2021
Partially successful.
Alternately, I suppose Corrections could argue that they have communicated their decision to release the information I have requested, and their "by th...
Temporary carriage of firearms directives
Partially successful.
It's been over six months. I guess Police are just not going to answer this question.
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Successful.
The IPCA has today released its report into the fatal shooting of Donald Ineson on 25 November 2018: https://www.ipca.govt.nz/Site/publications-and-med...
It sounds like the reason for this delay is that the people responsible for conducting that review and providing that feedback had "competing work prio...
Prisoners incarcerated for violent crimes
Successful.
I have sent a follow-up to my formal complaint to RNZ, referencing this response.
Requests for eligibility under the Official Information Act
Follow up sent to Ministry of Health by Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Kia ora,
Thank you for sending the updated response letter through so quickly, I appreciate that. I'm also happy to see that it is largely accessible...
Organ donor preference on driver licences March 2020
Follow up sent to New Zealand Transport Agency by Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Fantastic, thank you so much for providing this information so quickly.
Ngā mihi,
Mark Hanna
"Use of force and Police dogs" chapter of the Police manual
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Kia ora Lee,
Thank you for you apology, I appreciate it.
It would be great if, in the future, Police's responses to requests for official informati...
Delay in publication of the annual TOR report covering 2018
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Kia ora Mark
Please find attached the NZ Police response to your Official Information
Act request.
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
PNHQ
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August has now ended and the 2018 TOR report has not been published. I've sent a follow-up request asking for the new due date and the reason for the d...
The spreadsheet provided has no columns for refused re-applications for D licences, or refused applications for V licences. This omission isn't explain...
Firearms licences approved 2017-2018 RNZ OIA response
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Kia ora Renée,
Thanks for the very quick response. I appreciate that it can be a little hard to identify a specific request from that information, es...
NZ Firearm Licences 2017
Successful.
NZ Police appear to have sent their response to this request to the wrong FYI email address, and it has shown up in response to a separate request I ma...
Tactical Options Reporting Data January-June 2018
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Mark Hanna on .
Refused.
Tēnā koe,
I have now been waiting over eleven weeks for a response to my email on the 19th of February. I also sent a follow-up message asking for a...
NZ Firearm Licences
Successful.
I have asked NZ Police for an updated set of this data: https://fyi.org.nz/request/9870-nz-firearm-licences-2017/
Organ donor preference on driver licences March 2019
Follow up sent to New Zealand Transport Agency by Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Kia ora Dan,
Thanks very much for responding to this request so quickly, I really appreciate it!
Ngā mihi,
Mark Hanna
Calculation of due dates under the OIA
Response by New Zealand Post Limited to Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Thanks Mark - we were aware of the calculator and I see that it does work for our purposes now. Will point to that in our process.
OIA Officer
This e...
Drone/UAV aircraft complaints
Refused.
CAA has to act within the next CAA rules or the Civil Aviation Act (I used to be a recreational pilot). As drones aren't certified or registered (unlik...
This person's 318 annotations
Compensation for covid vaccine damage
Awaiting classification.
For anyone who finds this request and may be alarmed by its mention that three people have died after having received this vaccine, here's some additio...
Ethnic representation among gender in prison population
Awaiting classification.
For reference for anyone else following this request, currently the latest prison population statistics reported by the Department of Corrections are f...
c a, many websites publish information across more than one page, generally putting those pages in the same section of the website. Often, it is possib...
Temporary additional support
Awaiting classification.
After I tagged MSD in a tweet about this accessibility issue, they emailed me the URLs from this response letter. Here is their email:
"Good afternoo...
Temporary additional support
Awaiting classification.
It's a shame MSD decided to print and then scan this document instead of releasing it in its original format.
Though they do appear to have at least...
Gender ratio of PSO in the last 10 years
Awaiting classification.
Police have asserted that they don't hold the information you have requested. This seems unlikely, given they must certainly know whom these PSOs have...
Permanent member of household definition
Information not held.
Agencies have a legal obligation, under section 14 of the Official Information Act, to transfer requests to another agency when they don't hold the req...
Facial Recognition Technologies
Successful.
You could ask Police to provide an accessible copy, if necessary. I've had success with this approach before, though usually I've already asked for it...
Facial Recognition Technologies
Successful.
It's a real shame Police has chosen to release all this information in an inaccessible format. It looks like the response is 196 pages of images of tex...
Poilce use of social media surveillance tools
Successful.
To be absolutely clear, this statement from Police is not true:
"Without this evidence, we are unable to proceed with your request."
They are liter...
Poilce use of social media surveillance tools
Successful.
Agencies are under no obligation to request proof of eligibility, and should not do so without a genuine reason to do so.
The Ombudsman's guideline o...
New Police Pursuits Policy
Successful.
Nice to see Police providing some detail here around why the response will likely be delayed, even though they're not trying to extend the deadline.
The response to these questions has been sent to the email address for the original request, and can be found here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/11337-ta...
OIA Request: Custodial Practice Manual 2021
Partially successful.
Alternately, I suppose Corrections could argue that they have communicated their decision to release the information I have requested, and their "by th...
OIA Request: Custodial Practice Manual 2021
Partially successful.
I've annotated my request as partially complete because Corrections answered part 1 of my request (the Custodial Practice Manual is not up to date) but...
NZ Police has missed the extended legal deadline for this request. I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman about this unlawful delay...
Double-bunking and sexual assault 2020
Successful.
The Department of Corrections has missed the extended legal deadline for this request. I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman about...
Double-bunking and sexual assault 2020
Successful.
I'm beginning to think that the Department of Corrections is avoiding giving precise answers to my questions about their extension because they don't h...
Prisoner Incentive Framework
Awaiting classification.
The Department of Corrections's apparent policy of abusing the Official Information Act's lack of a requirement that notices of extension must be sent...
Temporary carriage of firearms directives
Partially successful.
It's been over six months. I guess Police are just not going to answer this question.
Xmas party costs
Awaiting classification.
What delay are you referring to? The days from 25 December to 15 January are not considered working days under the Official Information Act. Though you...
Compensation for covid vaccine damage
Successful.
It looks like a couple of the URLs haven't been correctly converted back into text after the Ministry of Health printed the document, signed it, scanne...
I've sent some follow-up questions to Police here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/14472-tactical-options-reporting-data-january-december-2018-follow-up-que...
Here's a link to my original request: https://fyi.org.nz/request/11337-tactical-options-reporting-data-january-december-2018
Details of firearms handed in as part of "buyback"
Partially successful.
Have you been able to download the data from the "Firearms buy-back scheme data" page as a spreadsheet, as Police said you could? As far as I can tell,...
