Providing full name and office location
Dear Department of Human Services,
It is my understanding that some representatives of DHS tend to avoid providing the full names on request.
Specifically by the representatives from "Multicultural and Tailored Services" led by Jan Bailey.
May I request the following information:
1) Any document that the department relying on for denying to provide full names.
2) A copy of the staff directory of "Multicultural and Tailored Servers", managed by NM Jan Bailey (title, position level, name, surname, office location)
Yours faithfully,
Anatoly Kern
Dear Mr Kern,
Thank you for your request made under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 on 21 January 2020 for:
'1) Any document that the department relying on for denying to provide full names.
2) A copy of the staff directory of "Multicultural and Tailored Servers", managed by NM Jan Bailey (title, position level, name, surname, office location)'.
Please find attached correspondence acknowledging your request.
Kind regards,
FOI Registration Officer
Freedom of Information Team
Employment Law and Freedom of Information Branch | Legal Services Division
Department of Human Services
Email: [email address]
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Dear Mr Kern,
Please find attached the decision letter relating to your request for
access made to Services Australia under the Freedom of Information Act
1982, as well as exerts of two documents which have been released to you
administratively.
If you have any questions regarding this matter or are unable to open the
attachment please contact me by replying to this email.
Alex
Authorised FOI Decision Maker
Freedom of Information Team
Employment Law and Freedom of Information Branch | Legal Services Division
Services Australia
Dear Department of Human Services,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Human Services's handling of my FOI request 'Providing full name and office location'.
I disagree with the decision to refuse in full the release of the document identified: 'MTS staff data' (contains 9 pages)
I do not require full personal detail in a way that could affect any operations and excluding surnames would be sufficient for this case (providing the rest of the information, including specifically requested first name and employee id)
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/p...
Yours faithfully,
Anatoly Kern
Dear Mr Kern
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your request, made
under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth).
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Team
Employment Law and Freedom of Information Branch | Legal Services Division
Services Australia
Email: [1][email address]
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Dear Mr Kern
Please find attached the internal review decision regarding your request
for documents made under the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
Kind regards
Kaitlin
Authorised FOI Decision Maker
Employment Law and Freedom of Information Branch | Legal Services Division
Services Australia
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Anatoly Kern left an annotation ()
4 years later and there was a response from Justin Lodge, from relevant government crimes justification department, issued under 2024-AICmr251. I can only laugh at the arguments presented from those who put me into the wheelchair for life with their actions.
The revealing part is grounds for secrecy provided by the department, providing helpful suggestion on what needs to be done to prevent further crimes leading to deaths of more than 1000 people every year, hiding behind of collective irresponsiblity:
the release of staff names and office locations would be sufficient to enable the applicant to identify and target Agency staff
the potential adverse effect, and intent of the applicant, is to identify and harass staff and their children personally, and make public the identity of staff members and their children, places of work, places of recreation and personal activities.
if the material in question was released to the applicant then there would also be the possibility that members of the public could personally harass and potentially harm Agency staff based on a perception of personal responsibility and accountability of decisions of Government, Ministers and the Agency head.
if staff names were released this would have a substantial adverse effect on the management or assessment of personnel, including potentially adversely impacting the Agency’s reputation to attract and retain staff, negatively affecting
morale and increasing the risk of workplace compensation.
Anatoly Kern left an annotation ()
I note that this denial is the subject of review ICR_10-24713563-367 by OAIC with no response except auto-response so far (which is quite revealing by itself).
Secrecy == crime.