Mark Hanna
Joined FYI in 2013
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This person's 442 annotations (page 8)
Requests for eligibility under the Official Information Act
Partially successful.
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
Partially successful.
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...
I have laid a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman.
Requests for eligibility under the Official Information Act
Partially successful.
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
Successful.
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
Successful.
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...
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
Partially successful.
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.
Request to New Zealand Police by [User 7569 name removed] (Account suspended). Annotated by Mark Hanna on .
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
Partially successful.
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
Successful.
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
Successful.
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
Successful.
I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman.
Urgent! Nikau Andrews Arrest.
Request to New Zealand Police by [User 7569 name removed] (Account suspended). Annotated by Mark Hanna on .
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
Successful.
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
Successful.
I have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman regarding this unlawful delay.
Fatal shootings by NZ Police
Successful.
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...
Use of Facial Recognition Technology
Partially successful.
"A trial licence was obtained"
"We conducted this trail [sic] under their standard terms and conditions as per their website. We did not enter into a...
