Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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Timeliness of my OIA requests using FYI: https://cipscis.github.io/charter/oia.html
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NZ Firearm Licences
Successful.
It's unfortunate that New Zealand Police did not provide the data in the format I'd requested. I've transcribed the numbers into a publicly accessible...
NZ Firearm Licences
Successful.
I have laid the following complaint with the Ombudsman:
Tēnā koe,
I would like to lodge a formal complaint regarding an overdue response to a reque...
I'm not sure why this response was delayed until the 18th of April. NZ Police have not acknowledged it as late, but as this request was received by the...
Organ donor preference on driver licences
Successful.
This information has appeared in an article on stuff.co.nz by Rachel Thomas: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/91221431/more-than-half-nz-drivers-...
Effects of the Bail Amendment Act
Successful.
I have sent a new request asking for the 2015 data: https://fyi.org.nz/request/5647-effects-of-the-bail-amendment-act-2015-data/
Evidence more police will reduce crime
Successful.
I have sent the following update on my complaint to the Ombudsman:
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Tēnā koe,
This is an update on the request to the Minister of Polic...
Organ donor preference on driver licences
Successful.
The same data for 2016 was released here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/3719-organ-donor-preference-on-driver-licences#incoming-12193
Organ donor preference on driver licences
Successful.
The same data for 2017 has been released here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/5493-organ-donor-preference-on-driver-licences#incoming-18241
umber of Police alcohol checkpoints in the Wellington Police District with any other purpose than enforcing traffic alcohol laws.
Partially successful.
It may be worth confirming with FYI administrators if that response may originally have been sent to an incorrect email address. NZ Police have somethi...
Results of audits into funding compliance.
Successful.
You may wish to ask when "shortly" will be, as in "the review of the Academy of Diving Trust will be published on the TEC’s website shortly".
The Om...
Kia ora Ian,
Data has been made available this afternoon on the Corrections website that includes some of the information you had requested. The spre...
Tactical Options Research Reports
Successful.
Raw Tactical Options Reporting data for the 1 July 2016 - 31 December 2016 reporting period has been released by NZ Police in response to a request by...
Accidental Weapon Discharges
Successful.
Though this request has been marked as complete because I've received most of the information requested, some is still to come:
"Providing these figu...
Evidence more police will reduce crime
Successful.
The Ombudsman's guidance on section 18(d) of the Official Information Act: http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/system/paperclip/document_files/document_...
total number of south americans living in NZ
Long overdue.
Though they may request it, it is not lawful for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to require that you provide them with a separate email addre...
Total number of 'ram-raiding' incidents.
Long overdue.
The response from NZ Police here is ambiguous. If you have not received a response to your OIA request through other means, then they are in breach of...
Thanks Ian, I hadn't realised you'd already tried the Department of Corrections. Best of luck with getting this information released.
Also, you may already be aware of this, but the Department of Corrections has published data on the number of unnatural deaths in prisons from 1996/97-...
It would not be unreasonable for anonymised data to be released in this case.
There may be cases where the numbers are small enough to be identifiabl...
Prisoner Age and Ethnicity Breakdown June 2016
Successful.
Though this request was technically refused, this is because the information I requested has been made publicly available so I've marked the request as...
Weleda premises inspections
Long overdue.
Requests made to the Ministry of Health cannot be received from FYI at the moment:
"Ministry of Health cannot be requested through FYI.org.nz at this...
I have laid the following complaint with the Ombudsman:
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Tēnā koe,
I would like to lodge a formal complaint regarding the refusal of a...
Evidence more police will reduce crime
Successful.
I have laid the following complaint with the Ombudsman:
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Tēnā koe,
I would like to lodge a formal complaint regarding an overdue respon...
Policy and Procedures regarding OIA Requests
Successful.
An updated version of the OIA guidelines has been released: https://fyi.org.nz/request/5237-guidelines-for-processing-information-requests#incoming-170...
Policy for handling OIA requests
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An updated version of this document has been released: https://fyi.org.nz/request/5237-guidelines-for-processing-information-requests#incoming-17095
