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Ombudsman – NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DEFAULT & ESCALATED OIA DEMAND
brief summary of this, that the Ombudsman has blocked our emails as they have not answered a good proportion of the 48 complaints lid over the last 9 months.
This has us now going to the UN to seek help to bring the NZ system into check.
Its not just the police that are breaking the rules here.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DEFAULT & ESCALATED OIA DEMAND
InLandsAirWater Counsel – Private Trust (PTNDA)
From: Tracy Lynch, Attorney under Instruction of Trustees
Return Address: PO Box 265, Queenstown
Email: [email protected]
Date: 10 December 2025
To:
Peter Bosheir in your personal capacity at Office of the Ombudsman
SUBJECT: Combined Notice of Administrative Default & Escalated Official Information Act Request
SECTION 1 – NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DEFAULT
- You have failed to act on multiple valid notices, complaints, abatement records, and service communications issued under Private Trust Non-Disclosure Authority (PTNDA).
- You have provided no substantive response, no investigation updates, and no lawful reason for failure to act.
- This silence constitutes:
– Administrative admission,
– Procedural evasion,
– Dereliction of statutory duty,
– Breach of Ombudsman purpose and mandate.
- Liability now transfers to the individual decision-maker(s).
- This Notice of Administrative Default is entered into the Court:Record of the Private Trust.
SECTION 2 – ESCALATED OIA DEMAND FOR FULL AUDIT OF FAILURE TO ACT
Under the Official Information Act 1982, provide:
- Full internal logs, triage notes, decision documents, or emails explaining why no Ombudsman investigation commenced.
- Names of all staff who viewed, triaged, diverted, closed, or suppressed the complaints.
- The reason each complaint was not logged, acknowledged, or acted upon.
- Any internal policies used to dismiss or delay Private Trust notices.
- Any ICT or filtering activity applied to @tangatawhenua.org communications.
- The decision-maker responsible for inaction and failure to respond.
- Dates and times each notice was received, suppressed, or diverted.
FORMAT REQUIRED:
Full electronic disclosure. No redactions unless a specific OIA section is cited with justification and decision‑maker identified.
This combined notice is now part of:
– PTNDA Court:Record
– Treasury escalation
– Crown Law oversight reporting
– International notifications
Acknowledgement is required immediately.
Full reply due within 20 working days.
By:Tracy Lynch
Attorney under Instruction
InLandsAirWater Counsel – Private Trust (PTNDA)
PO Box 265, Queenstown
On 10 Dec 2025, at 9:07 PM, Tracy Anne <[email protected]> wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Info <[email protected]>
Date: 10 December 2025 at 3:02:23 PM NZDT
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Your complaints with this Office
Kia ora Tracy
There is a typo with one of the case references in my email below. This should read:
CASE-032180
This is another complaint about the actions of Police when impounding a vehicle. You can raise this matter with the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
My apologies for any confusion this may have caused.
Ngā mihi
Erin Nickless
Acting Manager – Intake, Assessment and Triage
Office of the Ombudsman | Tari o te Kaitiaki Mana Tangata
Phone 0800 802 602 | Phone 04 473 9533
Email [email protected] | www.ombudsman.parliament.nz
PO Box 10152, Level 7, SolNet House, 70 The Terrace, Wellington
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From: Info
Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2025 2:34 pm
To: ‘Tracy Anne’ <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Your complaints with this Office
Tēnā koe Tracy
My name is Erin and I am currently managing the Intake, Assessment, and Triage team here at the Ombudsman’s office. I am emailing you regarding your request below, as well as the unusually large number of complaints you and your LandsAirWater colleagues have made to the Office this year. Every complaint we receive takes time and resources to progress. The volume of complaints you have made is causing issues, both with how we progress your complaints as well as the resources we have to dedicate to other people seeking the Ombudsman’s assistance with their complaints.
In 2025, we have received 48 complaints from you. Of these, 18 currently remain open. There are another 5 emails which we have received recently, which are waiting assessment. On top of this, a further 40 emails have been received from you, which were considered copied correspondence and were not entered as complaints. This amount of correspondence from you is unsustainable, and we will need to consider ways to manage your interactions with us.
Current complaints
I have attached a record of your complaints for 2025. You can see some complaint reference numbers have multiple ground reference numbers, which means there are two or more separate issues on that particular complaint. The complaint description is a short summary that my team puts in when entering the complaint, so that we’ve got an idea of the main issues in a particular complaint. Those with a closed date we have already dealt with, those without a closed date are awaiting allocation to an investigator to assess and progress.
You have been complaining to this Office for a number of years and should understand the expectations of us before we would consider your concerns. We often have to ask you to provide copies of your requests for information, to obtain authority to act for those you are assisting, to explain the Office’s jurisdiction (often repeating ourselves), and to explain that you would need to raise complaints to an agency before we would consider your concerns.
Complaints to be closed
Six of the complaints in the table provided will be closed today. This will be noted in the furthest column, so you are able to easily locate them. I explain the reasons for the closures below.
CASE-031156
As has been explained to you on numerous occasions, the actions of Police are not within our jurisdiction. An Ombudsman can only consider complaints about Police’s responses to Official Information requests. It is open to you to raise this complaint about Police access telecommunication account information with the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
For your concerns about the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) accessing this information, you would first need to raise a complaint to the Chief Executive, Mr Ray Smith. You can do so by emailing [email protected].
CASE-031673
This is another complaint about the actions of Police when impounding a vehicle. You can raise this matter with the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
CASE-033000
The Courts are also outside of the Ombudsman’s jurisdiction. This has been explained to you on numerous occasions. I suggest seeking legal advice on what options are available to you.
CASE-033002
It appears you have made an information request to the Rotorua Lakes District Council, the same day in which you made a complaint to us. As has previously been explained, an agency has 20 working days to make and communicate a decision on your request. As such, this aspect of the complaint is closed.
You also make a complaint to the Chief Executive of the Council at the same time as making a complaint to this Office. The Ombudsman generally expects that an agency is given an opportunity to respond before he would take any action.
If you have not received a response from the Council, it would be open to you to write to this Office again. However, if you have, and remain dissatisfied, you will need to outline why the Council’s response did to address the concerns which you raised and explain the outcome you are seeking from us.
CASE-033040
This complaint regards the Minister for Food Safety not transferring your request for information to MPI. While an Ombudsman can consider complaints about a Minister’s response to Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) requests, he is unable to consider complaints about transfers. This is because these complaints fall under the jurisdiction of the Ombudsmen Act 1975 (OA), which Minister’s are not subject to. As such, this complaint will be closed.
CASE-033866
You have requested that we revisit a complaint against Te Whatu Ora. The original complaint was not made by you, so I cannot provide any further information on this matter. However, when an Ombudsman takes Office, he will not revisit a previous Ombudsman’s investigation into a matter, unless special circumstances exist.
Next steps
The remaining open complaints regard OIA/Local Government Official Information and Meeting Acts 1987 (LGOIMA) requests, or matters related to them.
I ask that you please consider the remaining open complaints in the table and consider which ones you would like to progress. For those you do, it would be helpful if you could explain why you are seeking this information, as your complaints often do not provide a lot of context. I ask that you please do so in plain English.
Once I have heard from you, it will be determined what next steps will be taken on your current complaints.
Request for information below
You have requested documents, which appear related to receiving a bounce email notification. The Ombudsman is not within jurisdiction of the OIA and does not need to provide this information to you.
I can confirm that you are currently not on any communication plan and are not blocked from any method of communicating with this Office. However, as has been explained to you, due to the manner you have been communicating with us (such as not listening to our advice, copying the Office into your communication with other agencies, not providing authority to act when requested etc), consideration is being given to restricting your access to this Office.
Nāku noa, nā
Erin Nickless
Acting Manager – Intake, Assessment and Triage
Office of the Ombudsman | Tari o te Kaitiaki Mana Tangata
Phone 0800 802 602 | Phone 04 473 9533
Email [email protected] | www.ombudsman.parliament.nz
PO Box 10152, Level 7, SolNet House, 70 The Terrace, Wellington
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From: Tracy Anne <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2025 1:00 am
To: Info <[email protected]>
Cc: QT105 <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: OIA
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OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
InLandsAirWater Counsel – Private Trust (PTNDA)
From: Tracy Lynch, Attorney under Instruction
Return Address: PO Box 265, Queenstown
Email for Service: [email protected]
Date: 10 December 2025
To:
Office of the Ombudsman
(and any alternative or backup service address)
Subject: Official Information Act Request – Blocking of Communications & Administrative Interference
This is a formal request under the Official Information Act 1982.
The InLandsAirWater Counsel – Private Trust (PTNDA) requests full disclosure regarding the decision and process whereby communications from this jurisdiction (including notices, complaints, follow-ups and service documents) were blocked, rejected, or otherwise prevented from reaching the Ombudsman.
Requested Information
- All internal emails, logs, instructions or directives that resulted in emails from the @tangatawhenua.org domain or the following addresses being blocked, rejected, diverted, or prevented from delivery:
– ALL emails from the domain: @tangatawhenua.org
- The legal and administrative authority relied upon by the Ombudsman’s Office to block or interfere with communications from those who are alive and acting under Private Trust Non-Disclosure Authority.
- Any internal discussions or concerns raised regarding communications from @tangatawhenua.org, including recognition as formal service, Treasury OIA disclosures, Crown Law indemnity admissions, or external agency directives.
- Any incident reports, ICT security notes, filter configurations, risk assessments, logs, or vendor reports relating to suppression of @tangatawhenua.org emails.
- Confirmation of whether any complaint or notice from @tangatawhenua.org was silently deleted, not logged, diverted, or suppressed, including dates and persons involved.
Administrative Record Requested
– Exact date/time of blocking
– Decision-maker(s)
– Approval steps
– Any audit or review notes
Format Requested
Please provide the information electronically, in full, without redactions unless justified under specific OIA sections. Any refusal must cite the subsection, reasons, and decision‑maker.
Clarification
This communication is not from a legal entity. It is issued from those who are alive under Private Trust Non-Disclosure Authority (PTNDA). Blocking communications raises constitutional, fiduciary, and administrative concerns.
Response Time
Acknowledgement is required. Full reply expected within 20 working days.
Tracy Lynch
Attorney under Instruction
InLandsAirWater Counsel – Private Trust (PTNDA)
PO Box 265, Queenstown