FOI Request for Detail Incident Report 1-4YVFQ3
To the Department of Immigration and Citizenship,
Dear Sir/Madam,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) I request the following document:
Incident Detail Report 1-2UMYBH from the Department's Compliance, Case Management, Detention and Settlement Portal. I also request any documents attached to the detailed report.
Kind Regards,
Zoe Szwarcbord
Dear Department of Immigration and Citizenship,
I received an email regarding an error in my previous request. Please note that I am seeking the following document:
Incident Detail Report 1-4YVFQ3 from the Department's Compliance,
Case Management, Detention and Settlement Portal. I also request
any documents attached to the detailed report.
Yours faithfully,
Zoe Szwarcbord
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Dear Ms Szwarcbord
Please see the attached notice.
Regards
Linda Rossiter
Director
FOI and Privacy Policy
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
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From: Zoe Szwarcbord [mailto:[FOI #147 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 12 June 2013 2:18 AM
To: FOI
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - FOI Request for Detail Incident Report 1-4YVFQ3
Dear Department of Immigration and Citizenship,
I received an email regarding an error in my previous request.
Please note that I am seeking the following document:
Incident Detail Report 1-4YVFQ3 from the Department's Compliance,
Case Management, Detention and Settlement Portal. I also request
any documents attached to the detailed report.
Yours faithfully,
Zoe Szwarcbord
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Dear Ms Rossiter,
Thankyou for your email in regards to my request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, seeking an Incident Detail Report and attached documents.
I respectfully disagree that my request can be linked to other requests in accordance with s 24(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth). My request and the others you refer to are not requests by the same person. This is a condition precedent for the application of this section of the act.
The Office of Australian Information Commissioner Guidelines state that the section is relevant: "two or more requests from the same applicant may be treated as a single request where the agency or minister is satisfied that the requests relate to substantially the same document or documents.” (See Guidelines 3.62)
You must have regard to these guidelines in performing a function or exercising a power under the FOI Act (s 93A(2)).
In addition you wrongly conclude that the requests relate to documents the subject matter of which is substantially the same. My request and other requests relate to incident reports involving different individuals, different types of events, and events at different times and places. The subject matter in each case is likely to be unique.
Your reliance on these grounds for any decision to refuse access for the practical refusal reason that processing the request would substantially and unreasonably divert the resources of the agency from its other operations is misplaced. You estimate that dealing with my request would take three hours and as such this would not substantially and unreasonably divert the resources of the agency from its other operations.
Based on this I would like to indicate that I will be declining to vary or revise my request further and I look forward to true determination of my application.
Regards,
Zoe Szwarcbord
UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Ms Szwarcbord
Please see the attached notice.
Regards
Linda Rossiter
Director
FOI and Privacy Policy
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
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Our references: FA 14/08/00542; ADF2014/27517
Dear Zoe Szwarcbord
I am writing in regards to your FOI request seeking:
Incident Detail Report 1-4YVFQ3 from the Department's Compliance, Case
Management, Detention and Settlement Portal. I also request any documents
attached to the detailed report.
This email is to advise you of my decision that you are liable to pay a
charge in respect of the processing of your FOI request in accordance with
s 29 of the FOI Act.
Please see the attached letter for further information.
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Include your FA Reference number and advise whether you wish to pay the
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Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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AUSTRALIA
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Yours sincerely
Linda Rossiter
FOI and Privacy Policy
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Our references: FA 14/08/00542; ADF2014/27517
Dear Zoe Szwarcbord
I am writing in regards to your FOI request seeking:
Incident Detail Report 1-4YVFQ3 from the Department's Compliance, Case
Management, Detention and Settlement Portal. I also request any documents
attached to the detailed report.
Purpose of this email
I am writing to you about the charges notice that I sent to you on
Wednesday, 13 August 2014. The notice period under the FOI Act expired at
close of business on Friday 12 September 2014. As you did not respond to
me by the end of the notice period, your request is now deemed to have
been withdrawn by the operation of the FOI Act (s.29(2)).
No further action will be taken on this request. You may lodge a new
request for access at any time
How to make a complaint about the handling of your FOI request
You may complain to the Australian Information Commissioner if you have
concerns about how the department has handled your request under the FOI
Act. A complaint form is available at [1]www.oaic.gov.au
Yours sincerely
Linda Rossiter
FOI and Privacy Policy
Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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Important Notice: If you have received this email by mistake, please
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the sender and delete the message and attachments immediately. This
email,
including attachments, may contain confidential, sensitive, legally
privileged
and/or copyright information. Any review, retransmission, dissemination
or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the
intended recipient is prohibited. DIBP respects your privacy and has
obligations under the Privacy Act 1988. The official departmental privacy
policy can be viewed on the department's website at www.immi.gov.au. See:
http://www.immi.gov.au/functional/privac...
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