Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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Advice on Grant of Citizenship to Peter Thiel
Successful.
RNZ has reported that:
"Mr Guy, who was the internal affairs minister at the time, said Mr Thiel was granted citizenship under a provision of the Cit...
Custodial Practice Manual
Successful.
An update on the Office of the Ombudsman's investigation into my complaint:
"I can confirm that this Office received a response from Corrections rega...
're: Karanga Tangaroa - Copies of police operation instructions and copies of any police notebooks'.
Long overdue.
I think the police are being unnecessarily onerous here. They may be requiring this degree of evidence that you're eligible under the OIA as a delaying...
Tactical options research report
Partially successful.
It looks like NZ Police has completely ignored the two parts of this request that did not ask for the reports themselves.
Though the reports may not...
Tactical Options Research Reports
Successful.
I have uploaded an image of the PDF I was sent by NZ Police to Twitter, which can be viewed here: https://twitter.com/HonestUniverse/status/80922497844...
Tactical Options Research Reports
Successful.
Hopefully we'll be able to get the PDF displaying here soon, but in the meantime here is the relevant text from their response which I requested the Po...
Tactical Options Research Reports
Successful.
I've been in touch with NZ Police via Twitter to ask about the delay. Apparently a response was sent to the FYI email address for this request this mor...
Selected Police Manuals
Successful.
It looks like there are several links in that PDF, but they seem to be inactive?
Tactical Options Research Reports
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This article seems to clarify that the information I mentioned in my previous annotation was released under the OIA: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-b...
Tactical Options Research Reports
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Some information that reads as though it may have come from a more recent Tactical Options Research Report has been published by the New Zealand Herald...
Tactical options research report
Partially successful.
I requested similar information a couple of weeks ago (on the 16th of November). You may want to follow this request as well, as its deadline is much s...
Paremoremo
Successful.
These two quotes seem a bit inconsistent with one another:
"The Department has interpreted 'protective segregation' to mean voluntary protective cust...
Strip Searches
Partially successful.
By refusing sections of this request under section 18(f) without first consulting the requester to see if the request could be altered in a way that wo...
Custodial Practice Manual
Successful.
I have lodged the following complaint with the Ombudsman:
I have asked the Department of Corrections to release a document, the Custodial Practice Ma...
Acupuncture Treatment Subsidies
Successful.
"As per my previous e-mail, you have been advised of the Ministry's approach to your request including what information we will be providing. This sati...
Notebook entries / Jobsheet
Refused.
Here's a link to the Ombudsman's guidance document that makes it absolutely clear that official information requests can be made via this website: http...
Strip searches in New Zealand prisons
Partially successful.
I've written an article about the information uncovered by this request and Mx Lamusse's one which came before it on the NZ Council for Civil Liberties...
Prison Operations Manual
Refused.
I've made a request for one of the documents mention in the section of the Prison Operations Manual I mentioned in my previous annotation: the Custodia...
Strip searches in New Zealand prisons
Partially successful.
I have made two more requests related to this one:
Request for release of the Custodial Practice Manual, mentioned in the response to this request: h...
Prison Operations Manual
Refused.
Corrections has released a part of the Prison Operations Manual which is not available on their website in response to another OIA request:
https://f...
Strip searches in New Zealand prisons
Partially successful.
The answer to one of my questions has been answered in response to a follow-up on the original request: https://fyi.org.nz/request/3698-strip-searches-...
Strip searches in New Zealand Prisons
Successful.
Following the information released in response to this request, I've asked for some more related information from Corrections: https://fyi.org.nz/reque...
Strip searches in New Zealand Prisons
Successful.
Is it just my reading of this, or did they not provide an answer to the last question relating to who conducts strip searches of transgender prisoners?...
Plans to Acknowledge Non-Binary Gender
Partially successful.
They seriously waited until the deadline to send that response?
Organ donor preference on driver licences
Successful.
This information has made it to the front page story of the New Zealand Herald: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11618777...