FOI Request for Detail Incident Report 1-50KSRX

Zoe Szwarcbord made this Freedom of Information request to Department of Home Affairs

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The request was refused by Department of Home Affairs.

Zoe Szwarcbord

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

Zoe Szwarcbord

Dear Department of Immigration and Citizenship,

I was sent an email highlighting an error with my previous request. It should be for the Incident Detail Report 1-50KSRX from the Department's Compliance, Case Management, Detention and Settlement Portal.

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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Zoe Szwarcbord

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

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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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Our references: FA 14/08/00544; ADF2014/27517

 

Dear Zoe Szwarcbord

 

I am writing in regards to your FOI request seeking:  

 

Incident Detail Report 1-50KSRX from the Department's Compliance, Case
Management, Detention and Settlement Portal.

 

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.  

 

How to pay:

 

Include your FA Reference number and advise whether you wish to pay the
deposit or the full amount.

 

The deposit or full payment can be paid by cheque, money order, credit
card or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT).

 

Cheques and money orders should be made payable to "Collector of Public
Monies" and sent to:

 

FOI & Privacy Policy Section

Department of Immigration and Border Protection

PO Box 25

BELCONNEN  ACT  2616

AUSTRALIA

 

Should you choose to pay by credit card, please complete the attached
credit card authorisation form (CCAF form), including your signature and
forward to FOI & Privacy Policy Section at the above address, or email to
[1][email address].  

 

Should you choose to pay by EFT the department’s bank account details are
as follows:

 

       •           Bank:                           CBA

       •           BSB:                            062987

       •           Account Number:       10016044

       •           Account Name:           DIBP Official Administered
Direct Credit Receipts Account.

 

When making the transfer you will need to quote the number of your request
- FA 14/08/00544 - so that your payment can be identified by our Finance
area.  Failure to do so may result in payments not being identified as FOI
related and could result in processing delays.

 

Please advise FOI when you have made the payment made by direct credit so
that we can contact the Finance area and they can issue a receipt. You
should also be aware that payments by direct credit are not processed in
real time. There is at least a one day delay between somebody paying money
into the department's account and notification of the payment via our bank
account statement.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Linda Rossiter
FOI and Privacy Policy

 

 

 

 

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Our references: FA 14/08/00544; ADF2014/27517

 

 

Dear Zoe Szwarcbord

 

I am writing in regards to your FOI request seeking:  

 

Incident Detail Report 1-50KSRX from the Department's Compliance, Case
Management, Detention and Settlement Portal.

 

 

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

 

UNCLASSIFIED

Important Notice: If you have received this email by mistake, please
advise
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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