Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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New Police Pursuits Policy
Successful.
Nice to see Police providing some detail here around why the response will likely be delayed, even though they're not trying to extend the deadline.
The response to these questions has been sent to the email address for the original request, and can be found here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/11337-ta...
OIA Request: Custodial Practice Manual 2021
Partially successful.
Alternately, I suppose Corrections could argue that they have communicated their decision to release the information I have requested, and their "by th...
OIA Request: Custodial Practice Manual 2021
Partially successful.
I've annotated my request as partially complete because Corrections answered part 1 of my request (the Custodial Practice Manual is not up to date) but...
NZ Police has missed the extended legal deadline for this request. I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman about this unlawful delay...
Double-bunking and sexual assault 2020
Successful.
The Department of Corrections has missed the extended legal deadline for this request. I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman about...
Double-bunking and sexual assault 2020
Successful.
I'm beginning to think that the Department of Corrections is avoiding giving precise answers to my questions about their extension because they don't h...
Prisoner Incentive Framework
Awaiting classification.
The Department of Corrections's apparent policy of abusing the Official Information Act's lack of a requirement that notices of extension must be sent...
Temporary carriage of firearms directives
Partially successful.
It's been over six months. I guess Police are just not going to answer this question.
Xmas party costs
Awaiting classification.
What delay are you referring to? The days from 25 December to 15 January are not considered working days under the Official Information Act. Though you...
Compensation for covid vaccine damage
Successful.
It looks like a couple of the URLs haven't been correctly converted back into text after the Ministry of Health printed the document, signed it, scanne...
I've sent some follow-up questions to Police here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/14472-tactical-options-reporting-data-january-december-2018-follow-up-que...
Here's a link to my original request: https://fyi.org.nz/request/11337-tactical-options-reporting-data-january-december-2018
Details of firearms handed in as part of "buyback"
Partially successful.
Have you been able to download the data from the "Firearms buy-back scheme data" page as a spreadsheet, as Police said you could? As far as I can tell,...
Information on single sex and co-educational secondary schools
Partially successful.
They're visible at the bottom if you click "show quoted sections":
1. https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/directories/list-of-nz-schools
2. https:/...
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
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The IPCA has today released its report into the fatal shooting of Donald Ineson on 25 November 2018: https://www.ipca.govt.nz/Site/publications-and-med...
Just a note on section 18(d) refusals like this. If any of the information you have asked for is not present in the document Oranga Tamariki has publis...
It sounds like the reason for this delay is that the people responsible for conducting that review and providing that feedback had "competing work prio...
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Successful.
In case the links in Police's response might break one day, here is a list of the names:
27/10/1990 Paul Melvin Stowers
14/11/1990 David Malcolm Gr...
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Successful.
Yeah that was a bit odd eh? Still, it gives me the information I was looking for. And being from an official source, that means it can be more useful f...
Amount of complaints made to the OPC under the Privacy Act 2020
Partially successful.
Sure, but the OPC has a responsibility under section 13 of the OIA to give reasonable assistance to requesters. In this context it seems entirely reaso...
Amount of complaints made to the OPC under the Privacy Act 2020
Partially successful.
I think I understand the confusion. As the Office of the Privacy Commissioner pointed out, the Privacy Act 2020 only came into force today, 1 December....
Double-bunking and sexual assault 2020
Successful.
The 2017 request I mentioned is also available on FYI: https://fyi.org.nz/request/6465-double-bunking-and-sexual-assault
Relevant chapters of the police manual on deaths in police custody
Partially successful.
Your request was for one or more entire chapters of the Police manual. Though Police have only provided an excerpt from one chapter, they have not give...
Copies of Data Sharing MOU’s
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Shane Gibson. Annotated by Mark Hanna on .
Partially successful.
You're likely aware of this already, but the OIA only allows for the clock to be restarted in that way if the agency asked for clarification within 7 w...