Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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This person's 59 Official Information requests
Good afternoon
I have asked the team working on the responses to both of your overdue requests for an update and they have advised that the drafts are...
I have laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman about this overdue response.
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...
Decision to start general arming of Christchurch frontline officers
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Long overdue.
Afternoon Mark,
Thank you for your OIA request received on 28/02/2019.
You requested:
* 1. All documents, including meeting minutes and int...
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...
Dear Mark
You have asked for information regarding any restrictions around
publishing NZ Police’s fleeing driver policy. I note that this policy...
Tactical Options Reporting Data July-December 2017
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Good afternoon Mr Hanna
Please find attached a response to your request of 5 July 2018.
Our sincere apologies for the delay in response....
OIA response time statistics clarification
Follow up sent to Department of Corrections by Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
Tēnā koe,
Thank you for your response, that answers my questions perfectly.
Ngā mihi,
Mark Hanna
OIA response time statistics clarifications
Successful.
A response to this request has now been sent to the FYI email for my prior request, so it appears there instead: https://fyi.org.nz/request/7626-oia-re...
OIA response time statistics
Response by Ministry of Education to Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Hanna
Thank you for your follow up questions to our response to your request for
official information. We trust you will find the below...
OIA response time statistics
Follow up sent to Ministry of Social Development by Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Kia ora Jonathan,
Thanks for your explanation, that was very helpful. I'm pretty confident I understand the data that's been provided now.
Ngā mihi...
Kia ora Jason,
Thanks a lot for that explanation, I understand much better now why my request has been refused. I hadn't realised that the database N...
OIA response time statistics
Response by Ministry of Health to Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mark
Please find attached our letter in reply to your OIA request along with
spreadsheet of data.
Kind regards
Nick Allan
Manager, OIA Ser...
OIA response time statistics
Partially successful.
I have sent a follow-up request to ask for clarification on the data provided: https://fyi.org.nz/request/8034-oia-response-time-statistics-clarificati...
OIA response time statistics
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Good Afternoon
Please find attached the response to your request for information made on
16 April 2018.
Ministerial Services
Engag...
Police pursuit policy and statistics follow-up
Long overdue.
I have lodged the following complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman:
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Tēnā koe,
As I have previously discussed with Gareth Derby of...
Tēnā koe Mark
Thank you for your further email today regarding the New Zealand Transport
Agency's (Transport Agency) response to your request of...
OIA response time statistics
Response by Accident Compensation Corporation to Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Good afternoon Mr Hanna
Please find attached an excel document with the information we provided on 16 May 2018.
I apologise for the delay in getting...
OIA response time statistics
Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Mark Hanna on .
Successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear Mark Hanna
Please see the attached letter and excel spreadsheet regarding your OIA
request of 16 April 2018.
Kin...
OIA response time statistics
Response by Ministry of Justice to Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Hi Mark
Please find attached a response to your OIA request about OIA timeliness.
Cheers
Antony
Antony Paltridge
Team Leader (Media and Externa...
OIA response time statistics
Response by Ministry for Primary Industries to Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Kia Ora Mark,
On behalf of Andrew MacGregor, Manager Ministerials and Business Support, please find attached a response to your OIA.
If there is an...
Organ donor preference on driver licences
Successful.
The same data for 2018 has been released here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/7351-organ-donor-preference-on-driver-licences-march-2018
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I have laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman about this overdue response.
NZ Firearm Licences 2017
Awaiting classification.
I have laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman about this overdue response.
Complaints against products and services making health claims
Awaiting classification.
That seems like a fair call, I think. Though it would be technically possible for them to review every complaint and make an assessment as to whether o...
Information on use of police dogs
Partially successful.
I've had a response from NZ Police via Twitter, where I asked them why no notice of extension had been sent regarding this request. It turns out the an...
Firearms incidence
Awaiting classification.
It looks like they didn't attach the "Crime Incidents" spreadsheet referenced in respect to parts 5 and 6 of your request?
Information on use of police dogs
Partially successful.
I wonder under what circumstances Police will or won't choose to record the use of a police dog to apprehend someone as a "Tactical Option Reporting" (...
Information on use of police dogs
Partially successful.
NZ Police have clearly and unambiguous breached the Official Information Act in their failure to send a notice of extension as soon as reasonably pract...
OIA response time statistics
Delayed.
The OIA is clear that requests "may be made in any form and communicated by any means". This is not the first time NZ Police have, incorrectly, implied...
Firearms incidence
Awaiting classification.
There is some limited information related to this request, regarding events in 2017, available in the response to a previous OIA request, which has bee...
Firearm Regulations
Partially successful.
I see that NZ Police have withheld some information from a document they have released as "out of scope". This is not a valid reason to withhold inform...
Casual Uniform Policy and Decision Process
Partially successful.
Nigel an earlier response noted that the two parts of the request would be sent to separate "workgroups" within NZ Police, and that separate responses...
Casual Uniform Policy and Decision Process
Partially successful.
NZ Police was due to respond to this request 7 working days ago, at the very latest. Wonder what's taken them so long and why they failed to meet their...
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/
RNZ has reported that Christchurch officers will stay armed "until a wanted man is located": https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/383679/frontline-c...
I wonder where NZ Police got the idea that my email on 2019-01-08, which I can see was received by them thanks to the automatic response, was sent on 2...
Auror retail crime reporting system
Partially successful.
It's a bit late now, and this seems to have been resolved, but it is still worth noting that this is absolutely untrue:
"it is necessary to establish...
I guess I was right to worry that Police would take 20 working days or more to answer follow-up questions. It's been 21 working days now since I sent t...
Access to services by non-binary people - Follow up
Partially successful.
I'd suggest laying a complaint with the Ombudsman regarding the section 9(2)(h) refusal. As the guideline on this section clarifies: http://www.ombudsm...
Compensation Payments to tenants evicted under the Meth Policy operating under the last National Led Government
Awaiting classification.
Very cheeky, given the due date was yesterday.
Since this request was refused, the Office of the Ombudsman has published a guidance document on "Information not held" that is pretty explicit in clar...
Gender of officers involved in pursuits 2011-2018
Awaiting classification.
One approach you may be able to try to avoid a potential refusal under section 18(f) (substantial collation or research) would be to request two separa...
Gender of officers involved in pursuits 2011-2018
Awaiting classification.
You may be interested to see this guideline on "Information not held", which was recently published by the Office of the Ombudsman: http://www.ombudsma...
Gender of officers involved in pursuits 2011-2018
Awaiting classification.
I don't think the reason for refusal NZ Police have used here is justified. Section 18(g) of the Official Information Act allows requests to be refused...
Complaints summary data
Partially successful.
NZ Post has miscalculated the due date again. According to section 15(1AA) of the Official Information Act, because NZ Post asked you for clarification...
I know it's been a few months now, but I'd suggest you might try complaining to the Ombudsman about this refusal if you haven't already.
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