OFFICIAL: Sensitive

Dear Mr Pentland

             

I refer to your request dated 27 May 2024, seeking access to documents
under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the Act) as follows:

 

This is a Freedom of Information Request for the purposes of the Freedom
of Information Act.

I seek access to any AFP briefings or statements of facts made between 1
January 2019 and today which contain the any of the following:

 

(a) the name "Lyndon LaRouche"

(b) the "LaRouche" movement

(c) the Citizens Electoral Council/Australian Citizens Party (noting the
name change of the organisation)

Timeframe

Your request was received by the AFP on 27 May 2024, and the 30 day
statutory period for processing your request commenced from that date. The
due date for your request is 26 June 2024.

 

Information irrelevant to the scope of your request

The AFP, in its management of FOI requests, excludes the following
information on the basis that is irrelevant to the scope of a request:

*             duplicate documents, including duplicate emails (the AFP
will only provide emails where they form a final email chain and the
authors/recipients are contained within the final email); and

*             information that is publicly available, for example,
newspaper articles, online publications including information available on
the AFP Information Publication Scheme and the AFP disclosure log.

Please advise this office that you also consent to exclude the following
information:    

 

*             Names of AFP members, other than the Senior Executive; and

*             Direct telephone numbers, middle names of AFP members,
signatures and mobile telephone numbers of AFP members.

Information Publication Scheme

 

Please be advised that effective 1 May 2011 and in accordance with section
8(2) of the Act, an agency is required to publish information on the AFP
website following the notification of a decision in respect of a freedom
of information request.  Details of the decision will be published in a
Disclosure Log which can be found at
https://www.afp.gov.au/about-us/informat...
.

The requirement to publish information released under FOI reinforces the
objectives of the FOI Act to promote a pro-disclosure culture across
government, and to increase recognition that information held by
government is a national resource.  Exceptions to the requirement to
publish information would apply to personal information and information
concerning the business affairs of a person if it was considered
‘unreasonable’ to do so. 

 

If however, after noting the above, you wish to raise any concerns about
the publication of information concerning your request prior to the
notification of a decision, please advise the AFP in writing before 26
June 2024.

Kind regards

 

 

AFP 23141
FOI Senior Team Member – Corporate

Freedom of Information

AFP Legal

Chief Counsel
[1]Australian Federal Police
The Australian Federal Police acknowledges the Traditional Owners and
Custodians of Country
throughout Australia, and their continuing connection to land, sea and
community. We pay
our respects to First Nations people, culture and Elders past, present and
emerging.

 

 

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OFFICIAL: Sensitive

Good morning,

 

Please see attached decision in relation to your request to the Australian
Federal Police under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) of 27 May
2024.

 

Kind regards

 

AFP 23141
FOI Senior Team Member – Corporate

Freedom of Information

AFP Legal

Chief Counsel
[1]Australian Federal Police
The Australian Federal Police acknowledges the Traditional Owners and
Custodians of Country
throughout Australia, and their continuing connection to land, sea and
community. We pay
our respects to First Nations people, culture and Elders past, present and
emerging.

 

 

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