Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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This person's 80 Official Information requests
Unite against COVID-19 messaging: meaning of "eligible"
Response by Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to Mark Hanna on .
Awaiting response.
Tēnā koe
Thank you for emailing the Department of the Prime Minister and
Cabinet (DPMC), including the National Emergency Management
Agency (N...
Tactical Options Reporting Data January-December 2020
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Tēnā koe,
Thank you, I appreciate you getting this response out to me in time for the weekend.
Ngā mihi,
Mark Hanna
Kia ora Mark
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by New Zealand Police on 22 September 2021.
Kind...
COVID-19 Lockdown Advice - Filming and physical distancing
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Kia ora Mark
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by New Zealand Police on 29 August 2021.
Kind re...
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 .
Successful.
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...
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You may also want to cite the Ombudsman's guidance on refusals citing section 18(f) of the OIA if you complain. In particular, this part (pp8-9)
"Dif...
I hope you will complain to the Ombudsman about the unlawful delay in this response.
Section 13 of the OIA also creates an obligation on agencies to...
What happens if I don't want to pledge my allegiance to the queen?
Awaiting classification.
If you want to petition Parliament to change the law, the Parliament website has a facility for creating petitions: https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/pet...
Last night, Police published their annual use of force summary report based on the data I had requested here.
I find the timing of this publication q...
This is clearly unacceptable, I will be complaining to the Ombudsman.
"Social licence"
Awaiting classification.
So... does the Minister then not have a working definition for the term "Social licence"? Or did he just not consider writing it down?
The Ombudsman'...
Tactical Response Model
Awaiting classification.
This is unlawful, and unacceptable. You should complain to the Ombudsman.
Advice to the Minister about Tactical Response Model
Partially successful.
Come to think of it, if the Minister had already decided by 22 September to release these documents publicly at some point in late November or early De...
Advice to the Minister about Tactical Response Model
Partially successful.
It's been over two weeks now. When is the Minister going to release these documents as promised?
The Ombudsman's guidance on section 18(d) refusals l...
Assessment framework for the Tactical Response Model
Awaiting classification.
If the duration of Police's internal sign-off process is part of the reason for this unlawful delay, then surely Police has a legal obligation to treat...
Advice about the management of COVID-19 in prison
Awaiting classification.
I wonder what consultations the minister has identified as being necessary, and why they couldn't be completed before the initial timeframe.
You likely realise this already, but this might not be an easy thing for MoH to answer. It's unlikely they categorise requests by the way you've asked...
Covid statistics
Awaiting classification.
You may find this visualisation useful: https://twitter.com/farmgeek/status/1452719031681568769
On 25 October, there had been 2,681 cases of COVID-19...
Tactical Response Model
Awaiting classification.
I wonder what consultations Police has identified as being necessary here, and why they couldn't have been conducted within the initial timeframe.
Here is a link to the "Research into tactical options in the current policing environment" report I mentioned in my request: https://www.police.govt.nz...
It's very disappointing to see the Minister sending an inaccessible image of text saying the request is being transferred, even though the legal deadli...
Number of shootings
Successful.
Following one of my requests for similar information, when NZ Police published their "Tactical Options Research" summary report covering 2019 a year ag...
Number of attacks on police officers
Successful.
I haven't found any information about how serious the injury was, or whether any weapons were involved, though. Hopefully Police will be able to help y...
Number of attacks on police officers
Successful.
I see the "Proceedings (Police Stations)" dashboard on the Police website has a "Details" tab which allows filtering down to ANZSOC subgroups "Assaults...
Compensation for covid vaccine damage
Partially successful.
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...
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...
