Alex Harris
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This person's 467 Official Information requests (page 3)
ZX Security
Response by Southern Response Earthquake Services Limited to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Hi Alex,
Please find attached our response to your OIA request.
Kind regards,
Kelsey Church
Company Secretary
Southern Response Earthquake Services...
Auckland onramp data collection contract and advice
Response by New Zealand Transport Agency to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Alex
Please find attached the response to your request of 15 January 2019 for
information under the Official Information Act 1982.
Re...
Dear Mr Harris,
Thank you for your email received on 9 January 2019 in which you requested
information relating to:
"whether your agency h...
Dear Alex Harris
We have just noticed on the FYI website your requests to us of 18 August and 28 September 2018 for information relating to Thompson an...
Kia ora Alex
Thank you for your request about ZX Security Ltd which we received on 9 January 2019. You asked us -
* whether your agency has ever empl...
Dear Alex
Please find attached a response from Rachel Kelly, Manager, Government
Relations, Housing New Zealand, to your email of 10 January 201...
ZX Security
Response by Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Alex Harris,
Under the OIA, you asked as to whether GNS Science “has ever employed ZX
Security Ltd to provide training in social media or o...
ZX Security
Request to National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited by Alex Harris. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Technically this is a refusal because the information does not exist. But that's a highly informative refusal, and exactly the sort of thing I am hopin...
Weekly briefings for "children" portfolio Feb - Aug 2018
Response by Tracey Martin to Alex Harris on .
Dear Alex
Attached is the PDF file as requested. Please let me know if you have any further issues with opening it.
Kind regards,
Annika
Annika Rods...
Weekly briefings for "Minister for Women" portfolio: Feb - Aug 2018
Response by Eugenie Sage to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Kia ora Alex,
This is the last batch of information.
Ngā mihi,
Meredith
From: Meredith Lawry
Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2018 5:02...
Weekly briefings for "children" portfolio
Follow up sent to Tracey Martin by Alex Harris on .
Could you resend this please? The file seems to be corrupted.
Yours sincerely,
Alex Harris
Weekly climate change briefings: June - August 2018
Response by James Shaw to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Kia ora Alex,
Please find attached a response to your OIA request of 11 October 2018.
Kind regards
Rachel
Rachel Ward | Private Secretary, Climate C...
Thompson & Clark
Response by Environmental Protection Authority to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Good afternoon Alex,
Please find attached a letter from the Environmental Protection Authority
regarding your request for information.
If...
Thompson & Clark
Partially successful.
I do find the withholding of the letter from Doug Martin of behalf of the State Services Commission to be strange. I'm sure the content would not preju...
Thompson & Clark
Response by National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex,
Please find attached our letter of response.
The information referred to in the letter which is being released is
accessible v...
Thompson & Clark
Response by The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
The contents of this e-mail are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege.
If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, dissemi...
Kia ora Alex,
I refer to your request under the Official Information Act (the Act) dated 13 August for:
“all information relating to, or provided by...
Thompson & Clark
Response by New Zealand Forest Research Institute Limited to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Please see attached letter and attachments.
This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressees
named above. It may contai...
Dear Alex
Please find attached the response to your request under the OIA.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in responding.
Kind...
Dear Angus
Response of Official Information Request
I refer to your official information request dated 16 July 2018.
Please be adv...
Good afternoon Alex
Please find attached AgResearch’s response to your OIA request
AGR/17-18/03 (cover letter and 11 documents).
Kind rega...
Thompson & Clark
Request to Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited by Alex Harris. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
NewsRoom story: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/07/18/158122/media-hiccup-derailed-gns-spy-firm-plans
Thompson & Clark
Successful.
Response here, on the Canterbury DHB request:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/8066-thompson-clark#incoming-26576
Dear Alex
Please find attached our response to your Official Information Act request
to the West Coast DHB.
Kind regards
Kathleen Sm...
Good afternoon
Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections -
C97328.
Kind regards,
Ministerial Services...
This person's 183 annotations (page 3)
Surveillance of "courtsiders"
Partially successful.
This has now gone back to the Ombudsman.
Pretty obvious: https://fyi.org.nz/request/2653-account-of-mr-key-s-personal-detail-in-regards-to-the-ponytail-pulling
Asking for the policies - what...
Communication information
Refused.
Followup request aimed at extracting underlying policy:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/2763-policy-on-providing-staff-contact-details-to-clients/
Implimentation of recommendations of report on MMP Minister of Justice on 29 October 2012
Long overdue.
The information you requested has been provided in response to my followup.
Surveillance of "courtsiders"
Partially successful.
This has now gone to the Ombudsman.
Update: the Ombudsman has sent me their provisional ruling upholding the decision to withhold under s18(f). I'm challenging that because they've includ...
Implimentation of recommendations of report on MMP Minister of Justice on 29 October 2012
Long overdue.
Followup request:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/2662-correspondence-on-mmp-recommendations-2012-2014/
Abolish ACC?
Long overdue.
Try looking at the "Bills" section on the Parliament website:
http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/legislation/bills
This goes back to 2002.
Otago Rural Fire Authority under OFA
Partially successful.
The constitution of the ORFA is in its Gazette Notice:
https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2014-au3259
They're not a CCO (and so not covered by LGOIMA...
Communication information
Refused.
This request for additional information both invades privacy and does not seem relevant to the actual questions posed in the request.
This has gone to the Ombudsman.
Guidelines on interpreting and translation
Withdrawn by the requester.
Re-sent here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/2419-resend-guidelines-on-interpreting-and-translation/
What processes or procedures are in place around the issuing of phones to the Prime Minister.
Successful.
According to the Ombudsman's calculator this isn't due until 16 January.
Advice on corporate manslaughter
Partially successful.
I've complained to the Ombudsman about the redactions on the grounds that a decision has clearly been made (so there is no need to protect the constitu...
Cattle stop over road Sect.344 LGA 1974
Partially successful.
LGOIMA only applies to information held by a local authority. It is not a generalised Q&A mechanism.
If you're concerned about the legality of a par...
Delegated Authority re. CPP and NZS
Partially successful.
Appropriateness and validity are two different questions. The OIA will only help you with the second.
Delegated Authority re. CPP and NZS
Partially successful.
Did they answer the second part of the request, about whether the decision-maker actually had the required delegation?
Police officers in districts
Refused.
More importantly: will be refused administratively as requiring substantial collation and research. A narrower request would likely be refused for priv...
Communications with the Privacy Commisisoner are here:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/2069-communications-with-auckland-transport-about-surveillance-syst...
Will new surveillance system be used for parking or speeding enforcement?
Information not held.
Some illuminating information here about AT's anticipated uses:
https://fyi.org.nz/annotate/request/2068-will-new-surveillance-system-be-used-for-par...
Chief Executive Delegation
Refused.
Then you'll get an informative refusal under s18(e).
If they try and avoid answering, you could also try a part 4 request for personal information he...
Chief Executive Delegation
Refused.
You need to be clearer about what exactly you are asking for. You asked for delgation documents, and you received them. You never explicitly asked for...
Cameron Slater and benefit fraud
Refused.
Something seems to have gone horribly wrong with the scanning process here.
It may pay to send them a followup saying that you are happy for this information to be released after October 4. Section 204I Electoral Act 1993 forbi...
Review of OIA processes
Partially successful.
The Ombudsman has investigated and accepted the refusal was properly made. The statement to the select committee suggested that the review was much mor...
