Mastodawn

"We clearly need law reform here to protect transparency. This must include explicit penalties in the OIA, stronger (and matching) penalties in the Public Records Act, and a tweak to the Electoral Act declaring violation of either to be a corrupt practice - meaning anyone convicted will be automatically removed from parliament."

@norightturnnz, 2026

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-crime.html

Preach.

#OpenGovernment #corporatocracy #OIA #PublicRecords

A crime

Last week, we learned that climate polluters had been writing our climate laws , and trying to hide the evidence by handing over their deman...

O REXISTRO ESQUECIDO May 10

As Pozas de Loureza: o segredo mellor gardado da Groba

Na Praza do Mercado do Calvario, en Vigo, Sonia agardaba a súa quenda nun dos postos. Diante dela, un grupo de rapazas falaba sen parar dun lugar que parecía saído dun soño: un paraíso en Oia, con pozas de auga cristalina e unha beleza que, segundo dicían, era case escandalosa. Aquelas palabras quedaronlle gravadas. Cando rematou o seu recado, volveu á súa casa na praza das fontes da rúa Aragón. Deixou o peixe na neveira e, case sen pensalo, entrou no seu despacho. Algo dentro […]

https://orexistroesquecido.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/as-pozas-de-loureza-o-segredo-mellor-gardado-da-groba/

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Strypey Apr 24

So of course the NZ Privacy Commissioner will be pushing for third-party service providers to be subject to the OIA for every aspect of public service work they handle, just like the agencies commissioning them, right? Riiiight?

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#PolicyNZ #PrivacyCommissioner #OIA #PublicService

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Strypey Mar 30

@chopsstephens
> they could reduce costs by simply publishing everything proactively and automatically, with redactions when justified

Part of the goal of the OIA was to encourage exactly that. To create a cost to keeping it secret, so risk averse decision-makers were nudged towards openness. The fact that the MBA pod people who run the C Suites of public agencies these days haven't taken the hint isn't a failing of the OIA or the transparency safety-valve it provides.

#OIA

@norightturnnz