Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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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
Successful.
An updated version of this document has been released: https://fyi.org.nz/request/5237-guidelines-for-processing-information-requests#incoming-17095
Evidence more police will reduce crime
Successful.
Here is a link to the media release mentioned in my request: https://beehive.govt.nz/release/ten-cent-more-police-reduce-crime
Social good of cannabis.
Information not held.
I've submitted a request asking where the research mentioned in the latest response from the New Zealand Police is freely available online: https://fyi...
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
Successful.
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
Successful.
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...
