Joshua Grainger
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This person's 116 Official Information requests
2011 Referals to Police
Reported for administrator attention.
Hi Joshua,
I'm still distributing material in election booths , on election day. Last years offering was on law society letterhead but as you probabl...
Various NZSIS Information
Handled by post.
Kia ora Joshua, did you end up receiving an update or response to your request?
Sex Offender Register Proposal
Refused.
Refusal of this request was based in part on there being an upcoming court case that may, allegedly, have been impacted by release of requested documen...
Police Interrogation Manuals
Successful.
This Official Information Act request was cited by the Supreme Court in Reti v R [2016] NZSC 169.
Privacy Impact Statement for Project CORTEX
Request to Government Communications Security Bureau by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) on .
Refused.
The above response was misfiled as the agency used the wrong email address.
Papers surrounding Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Register) Bill
Response by Ministry of Social Development to Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
Tçnâ koe Josuha Grainger
Please find attached the Ministry’s response to your Official Information
Act 1982 request of 17 August 2015....
Reports from Crown Law Office
Successful.
Apologies for not updating this request sooner. My appeal to the Ombudsman was successful. The Attorney-General has acknowledged that he has two roles:...
Appointment and complaints process for Honorary Consul
Response by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Hello Mr Grainger
Please find attached our response to your Official Information Act 1982
request.
Regards
Exe...
Grade Breakdown by Course Subject Code
Partially successful.
Follow up request for more recent data https://www.fyi.org.nz/request/2417-grade-breakdown-by-course-s-uc-comparison-of-grade-2010-2015
Leader of the House Reports
Refused.
How did you get on with this? Did you end up appealing?
I would be complaining about the way this has been handled. The time that has taken to not get access to any of the material requested is unacceptable....
Papers on Mixed-Ownership Model Withheld before 2011 election
Response by The Treasury to Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Attached is the second part of the reply to your request.
Regards
Sherida Charles | Ministerial Coordinator | The Trea...
Documents relating to 2010 decision to split the IPG into two different entities
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
This OIA request has been answered, but they sent the email to this OIA request: https://fyi.org.nz/request/1954-review-of-the-immigration-profiling-br...
Review of the Immigration Profiling Branch
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
The second response was a response to this OIA request: https://fyi.org.nz/request/2157-documents-relating-to-2010-decision-to-split-the-ipg-into-two-d...
Requests for visits under Child Protection Protocol
Response by Department of Corrections to Joshua Grainger on .
Successful.
Hello
Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.
Regards
Ministerial Services Team
Nation...
How often are people released after being arrested due to evidential insufficentcy?
Response by New Zealand Police to Joshua Grainger on .
Information not held.
Dear Joshua Grainger
I am writing in response to your request under the Official Information
Act (OIA) 1982, emailed on 30 October 2014, for inf...
Information about the enforcement of the 2% Eritrean Diaspora Tax
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Long overdue.
For more information about the Eritrean diaspora tax check the UK's Country information report, available here: http://www.refworld.org/docid/523acfcb4...
Attorney-General Stay of Proceedings
Follow up sent to Crown Law Office by Joshua Grainger on .
Successful.
Thank you very much for your response. I was only thinking about stays of proceedings in relation to pseudo 'abuse of process' cases: for example th...
Asylum seeker country of origin and success statistics
Follow up sent to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
Thank you very much. Your response is exactly what I was looking for. I can see you gave me even more information than I asked for: since 2004 than...
Wow! I was not expecting to get these. Good on Amy Adam's staff for inquiring and getting these: often information is lost during transition between Mi...
Complaints made to the University of Canterbury over the RoUndie 500 event
Response by University of Canterbury to Joshua Grainger on .
Successful.
Dear Joshua,
Please find attached UC’s response to your request.
Kind Regards
Anita
Legal Aid for Mercy Applications
Response by Ministry of Justice to Joshua Grainger on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Grainger
Please find attached a letter in response to your Official Information Act
request.
Kind regards
Jennifer
J...
Titles of Ministerial Papers for July 2014
Response by Minister for ACC to Joshua Grainger on .
Successful.
Hi Joshua,
On behalf of Hon Craig Foss please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request.
Regards
Matthew
Matthew Kenning
Mi...
Information related to Project CORTEX
Follow up sent to Privacy Commissioner by Joshua Grainger on .
Information not held.
Thank you for your reply - very speedy. In particular it is great to see the Office of the Commissioner recognising that information inside someone'...
How was Kristy McDonald QC engaged to work on the Scott Watson case?
Response by Ministry of Justice to Joshua Grainger on .
Successful.
Good afternoon,
Please find attached a response to your official correspondence of 28
August 2014.
Regards,
Official Corresponde...
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Police Interrogation Manuals
Successful.
This Official Information Act request was cited by the Supreme Court in Reti v R [2016] NZSC 169.
Note this response only appears to cover 'undercover agents' (undercover Police officers). In at least one well publicised case undercover Police infor...
Papers surrounding Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Register) Bill
Partially successful.
I have made a complaint to the Ombudsman and requested that the complaint be dealt urgently given the time sensitive nature of the request.
Papers surrounding Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Register) Bill
Partially successful.
Regulatory Impact Statement is here: http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/child-protection-offender-register-and-risk-management-...
Privacy Impact Statement for Project CORTEX
Request to Government Communications Security Bureau by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Refused.
Ombudsman complaint to be filed requesting immediate release. This is plain ridiculous.
Diversion and Pre-charge warnings Statistics
Partially successful.
(Although diversion and discharge without conviction statistics aren't separated out)
Diversion and Pre-charge warnings Statistics
Partially successful.
Diversion statistics by offence category are available here: http://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLECODE7351#
Reports from Crown Law Office
Successful.
Apologies for not updating this request sooner. My appeal to the Ombudsman was successful. The Attorney-General has acknowledged that he has two roles:...
Documents relating to 2010 decision to split the IPG into two different entities
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
This OIA request has been answered, but they sent the email to this OIA request: https://fyi.org.nz/request/1954-review-of-the-immigration-profiling-br...
Review of the Immigration Profiling Branch
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
The second response was a response to this OIA request: https://fyi.org.nz/request/2157-documents-relating-to-2010-decision-to-split-the-ipg-into-two-d...
Information about the enforcement of the 2% Eritrean Diaspora Tax
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Long overdue.
For more information about the Eritrean diaspora tax check the UK's Country information report, available here: http://www.refworld.org/docid/523acfcb4...
Documents relating to 2010 decision to split the IPG into two different entities
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
This is pre the call, but upon doing some more research I found a slideshow with some more information on what the Intelligence and Risk Unit does. The...
Documents relating to 2010 decision to split the IPG into two different entities
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
In the 2013 Briefing to Incoming Ministers there's a chart with the structure of Immigration NZ. Inside the Intelligence Risk & Integrity Division (IRI...
Review of the Immigration Profiling Branch
Request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Joshua Grainger. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
There are some very interesting things in here. It's probably the most information about IPB that has ever been released. From a brief look here's my t...
How on earth could revealing the number of people who were overseas when their passports were cancelled compromise national security or prejudice inves...
Gang Numbers Cited By Minster of Police
Partially successful.
Ben has probably already seen this, but for anyone else looking I've OIA'd separately (outside of FYI) the breakdown of the Minister's statistics and g...
Thanks Mr/Ms Rogers for requesting this. I'm conducting research at the moment on prosecutorial discretion law honours thesis, and this was very useful...
Wow! I was not expecting to get these. Good on Amy Adam's staff for inquiring and getting these: often information is lost during transition between Mi...
I'm a bit cautious about this transfer: I asked explicitly for information held by the Minister for Ethnic Affairs, which is a legal personality separa...
Legal Aid for Mercy Applications
Successful.
Just realised that the Legal Services Agency doesn't actually exist any more: legal aid is rather managed by the MOJ.
Establishing an independent Criminal Cases Review Commission
Partially successful.
Just wanted to say thanks for this request: I'm using these documents to write a legal research paper on whether a CCRC should be established in New Ze...
Legal Advice relied upon to release Goff Briefing
Request to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service by Scott Milne. Annotated by Joshua Grainger on .
Partially successful.
Just as a FYI, privileged legal advice is subject to the Official Information Act. It is a valid to refuse to release information because it is legally...
Briefings of meetings with Minister of Immigration
Partially successful.
Very interesting: I did a follow up on the review of IPB that is mentioned in one of the briefings.
The only thing I would mention is that you should...
Donations protected from disclosure
Refused.
You can find some of the information you're looking for (such as amount of donation, who the donation went to) here: http://www.elections.org.nz/partie...
Statistics of cannabis charges by location
Successful.
Wow. Wellington has 921 prosecutions in 2012 compared to 125 in 2013. That's a massive fall. 921 is also about 3 times as many as prosecutions as in an...
