Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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This person's 62 Official Information requests
When is the annual TOR report covering 2018 due to be published?
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Delayed.
Dear Mark
Our apologies for not acknowledging this request earlier.
The response to your request has been compiled and iscurrently under
r...
"Use of force and Police dogs" chapter of the Police manual
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Mark Hanna on .
Delayed.
Tēnā koe,
As you know, NZ Police was legally obligated to send a response to this request no later than a week ago (2019-07-12). I would appreciate i...
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...
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...
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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)
Awaiting classification.
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...
Number of prisoners in custody over time
Awaiting response.
Kia ora Lance,
This information you've asked for sounds like it could be interesting. I'd appreciate it if you could ask Corrections to be sure they...
Decision to start general arming of Christchurch frontline officers
Partially successful.
Thank you, I hope it works. I've also drafted a complaint to the Ombudsman on similar grounds, which I intend to send to them today.
OIA requests received by police
Partially successful.
It's disappointing that NZ Police have chosen not to respond to your request in an accessible format. Here is a clickable link to the page on the SSC w...
The spreadsheet provided has no columns for refused re-applications for D licences, or refused applications for V licences. This omission isn't explain...
OIA response time statistics
Refused.
NZ Police appear to have sent a slightly edited version of the response to this different request, instead of answering any of the questions asked in...
The above response contains information I had requested in a separate request, here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/9870-nz-firearm-licences-2017
I belie...
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...
Abortion and the Crimes Act
Awaiting classification.
It's a shame the Ministry of Justice decided to only release this information in an inaccessible image-based PDF format.
I've transcribed the tables...
I have laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman about this overdue response.
NZ Firearm Licences 2017
Successful.
I have laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman about this overdue response.
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
Long overdue.
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
Refused.
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
Long overdue.
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/
Decision to start general arming of Christchurch frontline officers
Partially successful.
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...
