Alex Harris
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This person's 522 Official Information requests (page 7)
Social media monitoring of beneficiaries
Response by Ministry of Social Development to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Tēnā koe Alex Harris,
Please find attached the Ministry's response to your Official Information Act request of 10 February 2016
Nā mātou noa, nā
Of...
Hi Alex,
attached is the response to your request.
Kind regards,
Sophie
Advisor
Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
DX Box SX10088 | Wellington
T...
Statistics on SIS phone hotline and public contribution form
Response by New Zealand Security Intelligence Service to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex Harris
Please find attached the Director's response to your request.
Yours sincerely
NZSIS
Advice on US ship visits
Response by New Zealand Defence Force to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear Alex,
Please find attached a response to your OIA request, we apologise for the
delay in responding to you.
Kind reg...
Membership of Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control
Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear Alex,
Please find attached a response to your OIA request.
Kind regards,
Executive Services
Executive Ser...
Advice on OIA charging policy
Response by Reserve Bank of New Zealand to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Hello Mr Harris
The first of the two previous emails to you included the document named
“Charging for OIA requests - SMG discussion note - SK co...
2015 Statistics on beneficiary drug tests
Response by Ministry of Social Development to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Tēnā koe Alex Harris,
Please find attached the Ministry's response to your Official Information Act request of 17 December 2015.
Nā mātou noa, nā
O...
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached a response to your request.
Kind regards
Chief Customs Officer
Procedures and Support
Activities of Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control
Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Please see the attached letter and document in respect of your OIA
request of 4 November 2015
Executive Services Division
New...
Surveillance of "courtsiders"
Response by New Zealand Police to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Harris
I have been asked to send you the attached further reply to an information
request you made to Police I February 2015.
Yours si...
Privacy of advance passenger processing data
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris,
Please find attached the response from the Ministry of Business,
Innovation and Employment to your Official Information Act requ...
Advice on return of New Zealand s501 detainees from Australia
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Alex Harris
Via: [1][FOI #3359 email]
Ref: DOIA 1516-0658
Dear Mr Harris,
Attached is the Ministry’s response to your 12 November 2...
Privacy of NZ arrivals data
Follow up sent to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Alex Harris on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
This request has been sent ot the wrong agency. There's no need to transfer it, as a request has already been lodged with customs.
Yours faithfull...
Dear Alex Harris
Please find attached a copy of the email and response to your request sent
on 30 October 2015. Unfortunately it appears the origin...
Intenational evidence and advice on economic benefits of pandas
Response by Prime Minister to Alex Harris on .
Refused.
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How many times have police requested data from banks without a warrant in the last year?
Response by New Zealand Police to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Alex
You asked the following:
1. How many times have the police requested customer information from New Zealand banks without a warrant, production o...
Number of domestic intelligence warrant applications refused or modified
Response by Minister in Charge of the NZ Security Intelligence Service (SIS) to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris
Please see the attached response to your OIA request of 5 November 2015.
Yours sincerely
NZSIS
_________________________...
Subsidiaries of Learning Media
Refused.
Result of Ombudsman's investigation from 2014: no-one can respond to OIA requests to liquidated companies:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ffA-fCO...
Advice on increased refugee quota
Response by Minister of Immigration to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Alex
On behalf of Hon Michael Woodhouse, Minister of Immigration, thank you for
your Official Information Act request of 10 September 2015...
Workshops on regional research institutes
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Good afternoon Alex,
Please find attached to this email, a scanned response letter to your OIA
request from 11 August 2015.
I hope you fin...
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached a response to your request of 4 August 2015.
Teresa McMahon
Ministerial Services
Police National Headqu...
Audit of NZDF weaponry
Response by New Zealand Defence Force to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached a response to your OIA request of 4 August 2015.
Regards,
Corporate and Ministerial Services
Office of...
Advice on regional research institutes
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris,
Please find attached response to your OIA request dated 18 June 2015.
Please also find attached the documents related to your re...
Policy on providing staff contact details to clients
Response by Ministry of Social Development to Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Harris
Attached is the reply to you email of 1 July 2015.
Yours sincerely
Pia Wihapi
Advisor
Ministerial and Executive Se...
Statistics on fraud by MBIE staff
Response by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris,
I can confirm there was no monetary value to the fraud stated in the Ministry's response.
Kind regards
David Baird
Ministerial Advis...
This person's 183 annotations (page 7)
Given that the requester has stated that they are a citizen and resident in NZ, asking them for proof without any evidence to the contrary is prima fac...
New Zealand Police Manual of Best Practice
Partially successful.
The police will in fact provide chapters electronically if it is requested:
http://fyi.org.nz/request/police_manual_on_police_filming#incoming-3221
PR Plan for Kim Dotcom Arrest
Successful.
The use of 9(2)(g)(i) to redact information looks dodgy, and in one case (the number of people arrested) blatantly incorrect. I suggest challenging th...
The [post-Nov 10] 2011 Report on the viability of major energy projects in Samoa; it was carried out by David Wright, Management consultant, on behalf of the National Energy Coordination Committee.
Partially successful.
The letter states the reason for the withhold as commercial confidence. That information will not be provided to you. You could ask the Ombudsman to...
Amount spent on police precence at National Party conference
Partially successful.
Another fine example of police being clueless about the OIA. "Operational sensitivity" is not a reason to withhold information (however, "maintenance...
RoC*Rol Formula and Briefings
Partially successful.
The Ombudsman's advice is crystal clear: material should be released in the form requested by the requester, unless doing so would impair efficient adm...
Coastal Erosion Hazard Risk report
Successful.
Information is here:
http://www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/Planning/District-Planning/Coastal-Hazards/
OIA policies
Partially successful.
Some overlap with this:
http://fyi.org.nz/request/policy_for_handling_oia_requests#incoming-2840
Results of a search warrant executed on the property of Wayne Thomas Patterson in October 2006.
Successful.
I'd advise sending personal information by email rather than posting it in a public forum. The address format is "firstname.lastname@police.govt.nz"
Source code of Budget 2012 App
Refused.
I agree. It looks quite dubious. Respond quoting the Practice Guidelines at them, then take it to the Ombudsman if necessary. At the least, we'll ge...
Drink driving convictions
Information not held.
They'll be seeking clarification over exactly what information you are seeking: "cost of convictions" as in "social damage of drink driving", or "cost...
Apparently the original request was not recieved; the Council will apparently be responding "shortly". If its 20 working days from it being drawn to t...
Apparently the email was not received; the Council are now treating this as a new request due on 20 August.
Report on Council Controlled Organisations
Successful.
The document is online here:
http://www.localcouncils.govt.nz/lgip.nsf/Files/PDF/$file/councilorgs.pdf
as part of the Local Government Information...
Locations of injection wells
Successful.
"OBR files are text files containing the unique ID of the document in an Objective electronic document/records management system."
And indeed that's...
Refugee Detention Information
Partially successful.
To expand on that: none of the material in question is "advice" (operations manuals and MOUs can't be), it deals with relationships with government bo...
Refugee Detention Information
Partially successful.
Looking at that, some of those "reasons" look highly dubious, and there's the overriding question of why the material was not provided with redactions,...
Resolution 2758 - PRC Admission to UN
Information not held.
The problem is that if its in the National Archives, its not available under the OIA.
Resolution 2758 - PRC Admission to UN
Information not held.
It may very well be in the national Archives. have you tried searching Archway to find out?
Information on Ministerial Advisors
Partially successful.
Technically they're employed by Ministerial Services, but its odd that he doesn't want to answer in his capacity as Minister
OIA Requests
Request to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Alex Harris on .
Handled by post.
Correspondence with the Ombudsman is not "official information". But you should be able to get a copy of the original request.
A complaint has now been lodged with the Ombudsman
A complaint has now been lodged with the Ombudsman.
Impact on Brand Value of Asset Swaps
Information not held.
Meridian refused to take ownership of Whirinaki, possibly for precisely the reasons implied by this request. As a result, the station was sold:
http...
This clearly violates the Ministry of Justice's charging guidelines, which specify a free hour, and $38 for every half hour thereafter.
http://www.ju...
