Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer)
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You might find this site useful for identifying the meshblock numbers representing the areas you are interested in: http://www.mashblock.co.nz/
Communications with the GCSB
Request to Privacy Commissioner by Valerie Morse. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Successful.
The real due date is today (12th Oct), rather than Fri 9th Oct because the request was originally sent after business hours on 13th September. Dates ar...
Human rights and the TPPA
Request to Minister of Trade by Robert B Glennie. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Refused.
Maybe I'm blind but I can't see the words "human rights" anywhere in the minister's response.
Civic Amenities Group
Request to Tauranga City Council by David King. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Partially successful.
I don't claim to be an expert, but draw your attention to this statement from the Ombudsman: http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/ckeditor_assets/attachm...
Which thyroid medications and bio-identical T4, T3 equivalents meet criteria for government funding
Request to Pharmaceutical Management Agency by Belinda Hodson. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Successful.
Normally I would delete spam, but I will leave these here to give context to this follow-up request about it: https://fyi.org.nz/request/3158
I've al...
I have received another response to this OIA request that concerns me as it appears to have come from another agency and it looks like spam
Request to Pharmaceutical Management Agency by Belinda Hodson. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Partially successful.
On behalf of FYI.org.nz:
Each request has an unguessable email address this is only normally visible to the authority, not the requester. When spam...
Pile vs Richmond Road School
Request to Richmond Road School by Mameroa David. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Refused.
For evidence purposes, the above email was successfully delivered to the school's mail server (hosted by Google):
250 2.0.0 OK 1441881630 ro7si18541...
Staff turnover since Jonathan Ramsay became Principal
Request to Richmond Road School by Mameroa David. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Refused.
For evidence purposes, the above email was successfully delivered to the school's mail server (hosted by Google):
250 2.0.0 OK 1442394946 fm4si392184...
Military communication and information systems conference
Request to Ministry of Defence by Valerie Morse. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Successful.
Valerie,
As this was a transfer rather than outright refusal, you should mark this as "still waiting". You should expect a response from NZDF here b...
Shoulder injuries
Request to Accident Compensation Corporation by D Lohr. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Long overdue.
ACC should not have used the address used as proof of eligibility to also send the response. This keeps the response offline.
Do you have access to...
Information on weed control in the road corridor
Request to Auckland Transport by Rosemary Bonda. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Awaiting classification.
I note AT didn't explain which aspects of your request require all this work, or offer to talk to you about narrowing the scope. There were several po...
Staffing allocations and Entitlements for All Roopu at Richmond Road School
Request to Richmond Road School by Mameroa David. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Successful.
I have removed the notice saying the school is not clearing emails, now we are emailing the principal directly.
Oliver
FYI.org.nz volunteer
Active Client Border Alerts
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by John Harpley. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Successful.
John, thanks for marking this request as successful, and I'm glad you received your information. I assume they must have sent it to you outside of FYI....
Kaiwharawhara station closure
Request to Wellington Regional Council by Rutger Keijser. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Successful.
Luke, I have managed to download the engineering report ok (in Chrome on Windows). Can you try again? Make sure choose to download the PDF, not view as...
New Zealand's intended contribution to the new global climate change agreement
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Simon Johnson. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Successful.
IANAL but if the comment was communicated to MfE but not recorded - or has since been destroyed - then that sounds like a breach of the Public Records...
Adoption of children in NZ by gay and lesbian people
Request to Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children by Briar Babington. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Information not held.
The email addresses hidden above are:
1. courtstats@justice.govt.nz
2. info@dia.govt.nz
Oliver
FYI.org.nz volunteer
Rail Cost Benefit
Successful.
The Ministerial Services address your follow-up went to is a treasury.govt.nz address.
I'll move your request anyway as it improves our metadata.
Saudi farm sheep export - export decision and subsequent animal health
Request to Ministry for Primary Industries by Alan Shaw. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Handled by post.
From MFAT:
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Hi Oliver,
The response is close to 1000 pages long. On the advice of our IT division, we have not attempted to scan it. We have spok...
Compensating a Saudi Business man, Hamood Al Ali Al Khalaf,
Request to Minister of Trade by Caroline Evans. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Handled by post.
From MFAT:
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Hi Oliver,
The response is close to 1000 pages long. On the advice of our IT division, we have not attempted to scan it. We have spok...
Saudi farm sheep export - export decision and subsequent animal health
Request to Ministry for Primary Industries by Alan Shaw. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Handled by post.
Response from MFAT:
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Hi Oliver,
Thank you for your email. Unfortunately the documents requested are too big to upload to the website, and are pa...
Compensating a Saudi Business man, Hamood Al Ali Al Khalaf,
Request to Minister of Trade by Caroline Evans. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Handled by post.
Response from MFAT:
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Hi Oliver,
Thank you for your email. Unfortunately the documents requested are too big to upload to the website, and are pa...
Saudi farm sheep export - export decision and subsequent animal health
Request to Ministry for Primary Industries by Alan Shaw. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Handled by post.
I have sent MFAT an upload URL for this request.
Compensating a Saudi Business man, Hamood Al Ali Al Khalaf,
Request to Minister of Trade by Caroline Evans. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Handled by post.
I have sent MFAT an upload URL for this request.
Background around decision on "vexacious" OIA requests
Request to Taranaki Regional Council by Gavin Millar. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Successful.
Part of the response is still at the blog post linked above.
However, if the original requester would like to send the original response files to r...
Paper Certificate costs
Request to New Zealand Qualifications Authority by Cody C. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Successful.
Hi Cody, thanks for pasting the response you got.
Can you say how the authority contacted you outside FYI, how they found your contact details (if yo...
