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Government departments warned on OIA
The Chief Ombudsman is warning Government agencies, that those who don't comply with the Official Information Act will face public embarrassment.
The Chief Ombudsman is warning Government agencies, that those who don't comply with the Official Information Act will face public embarrassment.
As New Zealanders are well aware, but probably Australians are not, many of these people who are detained are not Kiwis in any real sense.
The Ombudsman has been asked to review a refusal to release a copy of the investigation into a second case of alleged undeclared conflict of interest.
At least two more schools have been investigated after complaints about seclusion rooms - including one that was eventually closed.
New Zealanders could be vulnerable to fraud and theft if they meet the wrong person online.
The Ministry of Education has put schools on notice: stop using cell-like seclusion rooms as punishment immediately.
Education Minister Hekia Parata revealed that 8 of the 64 special schools in New Zealand are using a seclusion room.
The Chief Ombudsman will investigate the use of seclusion rooms in schools, following reports that locked "time out" rooms had been used to restrain children.
An independent inquiry should immediately investigate the use of "time out" rooms in schools, says the head of the national Autism charity.
EXCLUSIVE: Mother hits out at Wellington primary school's "dirty little secret": "I'm horrified a school would do that, my son is petrified of the dark."
Health authorities are considering plans to move mental health patient Ashley Peacock, to the dismay of his parents.
Leading architect and designer Chris Moller has slammed the decision to demolish the Aniwaniwa Visitors' Centre at Lake Waikaremoana
A petition for an autistic man held in an isolated wing of a mental health unit has garnered more than 2000 signatures in a day.
The family of an autistic man held in an isolated wing of a mental health unit have launched a petition calling for the minister of health to intervene in his case.
A long fight, but worth it, says cleared diplomat.
A leading human rights lawyer says the door is now "wide open" for Ashley Peacock to take health authorities to court
Associate health minister Sam Lotu-Iiga has been assured Ashley Peacock is 'being cared for in the best way possible'.
For the past year, the Office of the Ombudsman has been reviewing the Official Information Act.
The Chief Ombudsman says a major review of the Official Information Act will scrutinise all 27 government ministers' offices.
The number of spin doctors and communications staff in government departments is on the increase again even after National swore to rein in the numbers.
The Chief Ombudsman will launch an investigation into the way the Official Information Act is being used - and it'll include a probe into Ministers' offices.
The national organ donation service at the Auckland DHB has been put on notice by an official-information watchdog after it was caught out deleting public records.
Police did not coerce Joyce Conwell to confess to the shotgun murder of Alec Rodgers in Christchurch in 1999, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has ruled.
A woman has lost $6000 when she was tricked into disclosing her eftpos PIN number by a scammer.
A detailed account of the evidence against Kim Dotcom has been released by the FBI to allow so-called victims of alleged piracy to claim against his seized fortune.
Customs has refused to answer questions about an email asking staff to send information on Kim Dotcom to the FBI in exchange for "brownie points".
A joint report by the Chief Ombudsman and the Privacy Commission is scathing of how EQC has dragged its feet over information requests from quake homeowners.