Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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This person's 70 Official Information requests
Prisoners incarcerated for violent crimes
Response by Department of Corrections to Mark Hanna on .
Awaiting response.
Kia ora,
Thank you for your email of 6 September 2020 requesting information
relating to prisoners in custody for violent crimes.
Please b...
Requests for eligibility under the Official Information Act
Awaiting response.
Comparing this acknowledgement with those received by other requesters on here recently, it seems likely the Ministry of Health has decided not to ask...
Delay in publication of the annual TOR summary report covering 2019
Response by New Zealand Police to Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Kia ora Mark
Our apologies for the delay.
Your response has been released to you.
Kind regards
Hannah
Ministerial Services
PNHQ
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Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Handled by post.
I have to correct my previous annotation. Though Police have released a supplementary report on Police shootings 1916-2020, this report does not includ...
Temporary carriage of firearms directives
Follow up sent to New Zealand Police by Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
Tēnā koe,
Thank you for your response to my request. However, I am a little confused about the answer to part 2 of my request, in which I had asked "...
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...
This person's 268 annotations
Prisoners incarcerated for violent crimes
Awaiting response.
Today, RNZ has published the same claim again, from a third Corrections source:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/425389/pepper-spray-use-rises-in-...
Requests for eligibility under the Official Information Act
Awaiting response.
Comparing this acknowledgement with those received by other requesters on here recently, it seems likely the Ministry of Health has decided not to ask...
Requests for eligibility under the Official Information Act
Awaiting response.
Ah, yes I've seen them mislead requesters before by telling them requests had to be made in a particular form, such as filling in a form on the Police...
Delay in publication of the annual TOR summary report covering 2019
Partially successful.
I have laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman.
Requests for eligibility under the Official Information Act
Awaiting response.
Have you seen Police demanding proof of eligibility? I have definitely seen it before on here, but I'd be very interested if you could point me to any...
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Handled by post.
I have to correct my previous annotation. Though Police have released a supplementary report on Police shootings 1916-2020, this report does not includ...
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Handled by post.
Police have not yet notified me that this information has been published, but a supplementary report on Police shootings from 1916-2020 was been publis...
Delay in publication of the annual TOR summary report covering 2019
Partially successful.
The annual TOR summary report covering 2019 was published last Friday: https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/tactical-options-research-report...
Extract of data from OIA Tracking System
Awaiting classification.
It's a shame Police have chosen to communicate their decision using an inaccessible image-based PDF. They've provided response letters in an accessible...
Urgent! Nikau Andrews Arrest.
Long overdue.
It seems pretty clear that Police is going to continue refusing to acknowledge that they have any additional responsibility under s19(a)(ii) over their...
Extract of data from OIA Tracking System
Awaiting classification.
As you implied in your annotation earlier, you would have pretty solid grounds to complain about this extension. Considering how late Corrections sough...
It's disappointing that Winston Peters's office has chosen to release these documents in a particularly inaccessible format. Though these are all clear...
Extract of data from OIA Tracking System
Partially successful.
It's very disappointing to see that the Ministry of Health has ignored their obligations under section 16 of the OIA here. You were clear in that your...
Extract of data from OIA Tracking System
Awaiting classification.
I'll be interested to see the results you get. Have you considered including Police in your project? Their OIA numbers reported to the SSC jumped hugel...
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Handled by post.
I guess I have a perfect sense of timing with my complaints? Since it sounds like the information I've requested will soon be made publicly available,...
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Handled by post.
I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman.
Urgent! Nikau Andrews Arrest.
Long overdue.
I understand Auckland Transport only keeps CCTV footage for 5-7 days, so unless Police requested that it be archived I expect it will likely no longer...
Extract of data from OIA Tracking System
Awaiting classification.
MSD has a common practice of sending requesters a notice of their decision without also releasing the requested information at the same time, instead c...
Temporary carriage of firearms directives
Partially successful.
I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman regarding the unlawful delay in NZ Police communicating their decision on this request.
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
Handled by post.
I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman regarding this unlawful delay.
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Handled by post.
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...
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
Successful.
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
Successful.
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...
