Copy of all templates used by the FOI team at Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
Arthur Jordan made this Freedom of Information request to Department of Veterans' Affairs
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Dear Department of Veterans' Affairs,
I request a copy of all templates used by the FOI team at Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
In case there is any doubt, this includes documents where FOI officers regularly copy and paste the content from the document into correspondence sent to FOI applicants. It also includes a blank copy of any documents which are routinely sent to line areas within DVA.
Yours faithfully,
Arthur Jordan
Dear Mr Jordan
Thank you for sending in the request that has now been registered under
reference LEX 50074.
Please accept this as the formal acknowledgement and copies of relevant
documents will be sent to you in due course.
Contacting you about your request
We will contact you using the Email address:
[1][FOI #8976 email] you have provided. Please
advise if you would prefer us to use an alternative means of contact.
If you have any questions, please contact us using the following details:
Post: Information Access Unit
Client Access and Rehabilitation Branch
GPO Box 9998 BRISBANE QLD 4001
Email: [2][DVA request email]
Yours sincerely,
Arthur P/No 62210944
Registration Officer
Information Access Unit
Client Access and Rehabilitation Branch
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2. mailto:[DVA request email]
Good afternoon Mr Jordan
Please find attached decision letter and documents relating to your FOI
request LEX reference 50074
Regards
Joshua
Position number: 62336363
A/Assistant Director
Information Access Unit
Client Access and Rehabilitation Branch
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Dear Department of Veterans' Affairs,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Veterans' Affairs's handling of my FOI request 'Copy of all templates used by the FOI team at Dept. of Veterans Affairs.'.
I do not understand how you can justify S.22, S.47E(c) and 47E(d) redactions, particularly on any Blank templates. To redact initials of an unknown Staff member is pedantic and not in the spirit of the FOI legislation and/or governing Case-law.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/c...
Yours faithfully,
Arthur Jordan
Dear Mr Jordan
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (the department) has received your
request for internal review of the Department’s decision LEX 50074 under
the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act). Your internal review
request reads as follows:
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Veterans'
Affairs's handling of my FOI request 'Copy of all templates used by the
FOI team at Dept. of Veterans Affairs.'.
I do not understand how you can justify S.22, S.47E(c) and 47E(d)
redactions, particularly on any Blank templates. To redact initials of an
unknown Staff member is pedantic and not in the spirit of the FOI
legislation and/or governing Case-law.
Your request for internal review was received by the department on 29
June 2022 and the 30 day statutory period for processing your request
commenced from the day after that date.
Where possible, your request for internal review will be handled by an FOI
officer authorised decision-maker who was not involved in the original
decision.
Your address
The FOI Act requires that you provide us with an address that we can send
notices to. You have advised your electronic address is
[1][FOI #8976 email] . Unless you tell us
otherwise, we will send all notices and correspondence to this address.
Disclosure log
Information released under the FOI Act may be published on a disclosure
log on our website, subject to certain exceptions. These exceptions
include where publication of personal, business, professional or
commercial information would be unreasonable.
Further assistance
If you have any questions about your request, please email
[2][DVA request email]
Yours sincerely
Arthur
Position Number 62210944
Information Access Officer
Information Access Unit
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
[3][DVA request email]
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2. mailto:[DVA request email]
3. mailto:[DVA request email]
Good Afternoon Mr Jordan,
Please find attached decision letter for Internal review request LEX
50492.
Kind regards
Amy (62232671)
Information Access Unit
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
e [1][email address]
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Julie left an annotation ()
Hi Jordan,
I think you are correct, as the initials of a person on there own would not be sufficient to met the threshold of personal information, as they could not reasonably identify anyone.
This is especially the case when Veterans does not publish the last name of junior staff in foi releases.
Veterans always makes untenable arbitrary claims like this.
Julie