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FOI Request: FA 18/06/00873

Dear Ms O'Reilly

Acknowledgement of Freedom of Information Access request

I refer to your correspondence received on 18 June 2018 seeking access to documents held by the Department of Home Affairs (the Department) under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act).

Please note that on 20 December 2017 the Home Affairs Portfolio, including the Department of Home Affairs, was formally established. A request for access to documents held by the Department of Home Affairs will be limited to documents held by the Department, and will not include documents held by other agencies within the wider Home Affairs portfolio, which remain separate agencies for the purposes of the FOI Act.

You have requested access to the following:

Incident logs for the past 5 years for the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre.

Your request was received by the Department on 18 June 2018 and has been allocated FOI request number FA 18/06/00873. Please include your FOI request number in all correspondence with the Freedom of Information Section.

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From: Monique <[FOI #4649 email]>
Sent: Monday, 18 June 2018 6:10 PM
To: FOI <[DIBP request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Serco - Incident Logs Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre

Dear Department of Immigration and Border Protection,

Under the Freedom of Information act i'm requesting the following:-

1. Incident logs for the past 5 years for the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre

Yours faithfully,

Monique O'Reilly

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UNCLASSIFIED

Dear Ms O'Reilly

I refer to your correspondence received on 18 June 2018 seeking access to
documents held by the Department of Home Affairs (the Department) under
the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act).

As you may remember, you requested to access:

Incident logs for the past 5 years for the Maribyrnong Immigration
Detention Centre.

To enable an officer of the Department to identify the documents you are
seeking to access, the Department requires further information from you.
Relevantly, the Department wishes to confirm whether you are seeking:

· the data recorded of the incidents at Maribyrnong Immigration
Detention Centre (IDC) for the past 5 years; or

· the report of each individual incident.

Please bear in mind that if you are seeking the report for each individual
incident, the Department has identified approximately 3000 records which
are potentially relevant to your request. As such, if you are seeking to
access each individual incident report, it would assist the Department to
process your request if you would narrow the date-range of your request to
a more limited and specific time period and (if possible) nominate whether
you are seeking reports pertaining to a particular type of incident or
subject-matter.

It would be appreciated if you could provide a response to this request
for further information by no later than this Monday, 2 July 2018.

Kind regards,

FOI, Privacy and Records Management Branch
Corporate Division
Department of Home Affairs
E: [1][DIBP request email]

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Good morning Ms O’Reilly

We refer to your request received on 18 June 2018, in relation the
incident logs for the past 5 years for the Maribyrnong Immigration
Detention Centre.

On 27 June 2018, we sought clarification from you regarding your request,
and asked that you provide us with additional details by no later than 2
July 2018.

We note that we have received no response from you.

As such, we regard your request as closed, and will be taking no further
action in regards to it.

Should you have any concerns with that, or wish to discuss your request
with us, please contact us at [1][DIBP request email].

You are of course, welcome to submit a new request in the future, noting
that we will require additional information from than was originally
included in this request.

With kind regards

Freedom of Information Section

FOI, Privacy and Records Management Branch

Productivity and Compliance Division | Corporate and Enabling Group

Department of Home Affairs

E: [2][DIBP request email]

UNCLASSIFIED

From: FOI
Sent: Wednesday, 27 June 2018 2:04 PM
To: 'Monique' <[3][FOI #4649 email]>
Subject: HPRM: FOI request - Further information required - Reference: FA
18/06/00873 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

UNCLASSIFIED

Dear Ms O'Reilly

I refer to your correspondence received on 18 June 2018 seeking access to
documents held by the Department of Home Affairs (the Department) under
the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act).

As you may remember, you requested to access:

Incident logs for the past 5 years for the Maribyrnong Immigration
Detention Centre.

To enable an officer of the Department to identify the documents you are
seeking to access, the Department requires further information from you.
Relevantly, the Department wishes to confirm whether you are seeking:

· the data recorded of the incidents at Maribyrnong Immigration
Detention Centre (IDC) for the past 5 years; or

· the report of each individual incident.

Please bear in mind that if you are seeking the report for each individual
incident, the Department has identified approximately 3000 records which
are potentially relevant to your request. As such, if you are seeking to
access each individual incident report, it would assist the Department to
process your request if you would narrow the date-range of your request to
a more limited and specific time period and (if possible) nominate whether
you are seeking reports pertaining to a particular type of incident or
subject-matter.

It would be appreciated if you could provide a response to this request
for further information by no later than this Monday, 2 July 2018.

Kind regards,

FOI, Privacy and Records Management Branch
Corporate Division
Department of Home Affairs
E: [4][DIBP request email]

UNCLASSIFIED

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