Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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This person's 67 Official Information requests
Temporary carriage of firearms directives
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Awaiting response.
Hi Mark,
Your request is currently going through the review and signoff stage.
We are working to get the finalised response to you ASAP....
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Delayed.
I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman regarding this unlawful delay.
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
Tactical Options Reporting Data January-December 2018
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Refused.
Kia ora Mark
Apologies for any confusion. To clarify, the link provided is to the
annual report. We were contacting you to ensure you had received t...
"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...
Decision to start general arming of Christchurch frontline officers
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Afternoon Mark,
The District Commander’s knowledge of the risk assessment completed for this event, and that of anyone else who attended the meetings,...
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...
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...
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Armed Response Team Trial
Partially successful.
It's disappointing that NZ Police chose to release these 247 pages of documents as an inaccessible (and unsearchable) image-based PDF. I see many of th...
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Delayed.
I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman regarding this unlawful delay.
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Delayed.
Since Police did not send me a notification of their decision on this request today, and it hasn't been extended, they have broken the law. I'll be lod...
Fleeing driver incidents since 2010 - Totals and Ages
Awaiting response.
Though it doesn't contain the age-related information you've requested, Police already proactively release information every quarter on the number of "...
Fleeing Driver and Urgent Duty Driving Policies
Awaiting classification.
If it's useful to you, Police released their Fleeing Driver Policy (all versions from 18 October 2010 up to what was then current) to me on March 19 20...
Fleeing Driver and Urgent Duty Driving Policies
Awaiting classification.
Clearly Police's unlawful delay of 19 working days is unlawful and unacceptable, but I'm surprised that they've also failed to release some of the info...
Use of Facial Recognition Technology
Awaiting classification.
"A trial licence was obtained"
"We conducted this trail [sic] under their standard terms and conditions as per their website. We did not enter into a...
It's a shame ACC chose to release this information in such an inaccessible format. The PDF they have released is watermarked and impossible to search,...
Harmful Digital Communications Act - Police Manual chapters, Policies or Guidelines for prosecutions under this act
Awaiting classification.
It's incredibly disappointing that NZ Police have ignored your clear request that the information you asked for should be released in a searchable form...
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Delayed.
Regarding the part of my request that deals with cases where Police shot someone who died, but may not have died because they were shot, a New Zealand...
OIA Procedures
Awaiting response.
Interesting. Police miscalculated the due date of one of my recent OIA requests as well. Though when I asked for clarification, like you have, they wer...
Type information held at the police
Long overdue.
It's disappointing that Police took 14 working days longer than they were legally allowed to respond to this request, without a valid reason for extend...
Chiropractors as an essential service
Awaiting classification.
Huh, I'm surprised to hear that chiropractors have been categorised as an essential service. I see in this Stuff article that the approval has come und...
Companies receiving COVID-19 wage subsidy
Awaiting classification.
It seems unusual that MSD has told you that parts of your request are refused because the information is publicly available using the search function,...
OIA Authorisation and Training of the National Manager Response and Operations
Partially successful.
I still haven't received any response from Police. My request asking about this one is now 25 working days unlawfully overdue, and this request is now...
Searches of prisoners
Awaiting classification.
I would recommend you ask the Department of Corrections to re-send this information in an accessible format, such as a spreadsheet for tabular data....
Searches of prisoners
Awaiting classification.
I see the Department of Corrections continues to choose to use the inaccessible format of image-based PDFs for their OIA response letters, and it seems...
OIA Authorisation and Training of the National Manager Response and Operations
Partially successful.
This request is now 106 working days overdue. Police have told me I can expect a response this week to my OIA request asking about this one. That reque...
Information gathered during review of proactive publication of Cabinet Papers
Partially successful.
I see the State Services Commission has ignored this part of your request:
"Also pursuant to section 16 of the OIA I request that the attachments are...
Demograph of students suspended or expelled, Schools plan to prevent institutional racism
Long overdue.
Mt Roskill Grammar's response to this request is months overdue. Have they been in touch with you off the FYI website to provide this information?
OIA Authorisation and Training of the National Manager Response and Operations
Partially successful.
Police's response to this request is now 98 working days unlawfully overdue.
I asked them last month to confirm that they had not forgotten about thi...
Facebook Video
Information not held.
I'd urge you to lay a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman regarding NZ Police's unacceptable delay in their initial response to your request, ha...
Authority under law to carry firearms
Successful.
If you don't receive a response by the end of tomorrow, I recommend you lay a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman.The Official Information Act o...
Prison phone service
Successful.
Unfortunately the Department of Corrections chose to use an inaccessible image-based PDF format for their response letter, which makes it impossible to...
Main subject of complaints against Police
Successful.
The response letter says "Please find attached the Police Professional Conduct data now displayed on the Police Website" but this data does not appear...
