Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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This person's 64 Official Information requests
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...
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...
This person's 222 annotations
The OIA starts back up today after the summer break. Police's response to this request is now 65 working days overdue.
Location of red light cameras
Information not held.
Section 14 of the Official Information Act requires agencies to transfer requests in cases like this, where they do not hold the information that has b...
Information on privacy and data for Smart Homes Project
Long overdue.
This is a bizarre response. Kāinga Ora has simply not answered some of these questions, though they have also not given any reason (as required under t...
I'm not certain what guideline Police are quoting from here. However, this is not the first time I've seen Police claim that information is not held be...
Agreed. I laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman when Police first missed their extended due date, but I doubt they will get to the bottom o...
I have laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman regarding the unlawful delay in NZ Police's response to this request.
This request is 41 working days overdue now. Just a few more and you'll have beat my record of Police not replying to a request until it was 43 working...
Structure charts
Partially successful.
"Perhaps you should try the eastern and BOP districts directly as I only process requests for the Waikato District."
That's not your problem. Your re...
26 working days unlawfully overdue and counting... Police really don't seem to be taking this request very seriously, do they?
Dogs shot by NZ police officers in last 5 years
Successful.
You may be interested to know that NZ Police have recently released more information regarding their use of force against animals. This includes the nu...
Complaints made about Corrections Officers
Partially successful.
It's disappointing that Corrections has chosen to use an inaccessible format, and released this information as an image-based PDF. If you wish to avoid...
Prisoner Incentive Framework
Partially successful.
Oops, not sure where my acronym "PCI" came from in that annotation. I was meaning to refer to the Prisoner Incentive Framework.
Prisoner Incentive Framework
Partially successful.
Some of these numbers don't appear to add up.
It's unfortunate that Corrections chose to release this information in an inaccessible format, as an im...
Youth payments
Awaiting classification.
It's disappointing that MSD has been unable to release much of this information effectively due to their own low quality record keeping processes.
Al...
I see previous similar data released by ACC has also excluded GST. For example:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/6362/response/21951/attach/3/Response%20cl...
I see the costs they've specified are excluding GST, though it's not clear to me why this is the case. Does ACC not pay GST when they pay for these ser...
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...
This request is a direct follow-up to https://fyi.org.nz/request/10504-when-is-the-annual-tor-report-covering-2018-due-to-be-published
Released Prisoners
Partially successful.
It's disappointing that the Department of Corrections has chosen to release this information in the form of an inaccessible image-based PDF, forcing an...
Released Prisoners
Partially successful.
Disappointing to see this notice of extension only arrive on the original due date. I wish the OIA required that these notices be sent as soon as reaso...
Pain relief in labour
Partially successful.
What a ridiculous response. If the advice is supported by "quantitative and qualitative studies" then clearly to answer your request that they "Please...
"the fact that he is not a government minister does not preclude him being subject to the OIA"
This is not correct.
Members of Parliament are not s...
Information on use of police dogs
Partially successful.
I wonder how NZ Police defined "serious" injuries in their response here. They provided this information in response to a question asking about long te...
Whether to conduct a review of the Official Information Act (OIA)
Partially successful.
37 MB isn't that big. Obviously it will depend on exactly what this file size limit is, but surely they could split the PDF into two or three separate...
Transgender prisoners
Reported for administrator attention.
It's disappointing that the Department of Corrections has invoked section 9(2)(g)(i) of the OIA to withhold all the "Current issues" and most of the "R...
