I'm currently in a stand-off with Massey University's "Legal and Governance" department over the release of my beloved dog, Harry's, full veterinary records.
Even from the easily changed and subjective documentation Massey has released under the Privacy Act 2020 (hoping that, as a mere pet owner, I wouldn't know there is more), it appears additions were being made right up to the date of its release to me, some six weeks after the killing of Harry, at the Companion Animal "Hospital" on December 1 last year.
My deep dive into the multiple concerns I have is currently a work-in-progress.
Needless to say, however, I have very
many concerns over what appear
(very obviously to me, as a skilled writer and editor dealing with multiple authoring parties' work over 40 years) to be some substantial and significant additions . . . reading suspiciously like a retrofitted denial of, and defence against, the specific concerns around which two media releases I issued about Harry's treatment in the "Hospital's" "ICU" ward had been based. To be noted, I had, in consideration, also forwarded these to Massey itself upon their distribution to my media contacts.
Ideally, this particularly critical component of my continuing investigation would not be finalised until Massey releases the
full records, the unredacted digital metadata, and the six withheld videos of my poor little Harry. However, as you will see from my below formal complaint just submitted to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC), Massey appears to to be running scared regarding my escalating insistence on the release of anything further to me.
They have now pivoted from the bureaucratic, template-style, dismissive responses despatched to me by some Legal and Governance junior, to the Friday, January 31 arrival of an intended sledgehammer deterrent from the Dean of the Veterinary School himself no less, one Jon Huxley. To be noted, Huxley had, until Friday remained in haughty ignorance and/or dismissiveness of my many communications.
In an apparent panic over my having finally reached the point where I gave the Legal and Governance department until Friday COB to provide a date for the release of Harry's
full records (including all digital metadata), after which, I advised, I would submit to the OPC a formal Notice of Non-Compliance, the Dean managed to craft and fire off an intended-to-be-very-frightening email to me at 3.31pm. His rather pathetic missive featured the threat of setting the University's big-ticket law firm, Buddle Findlay, onto me if I keep communicating what I clearly see as the truth of
Harry's intense suffering and unnecessary demise under shameful false pretences.
If you're interested in the Dean's email and my response to it, read the trail
here.
Sadly for the Dean and the no doubt handsomely paid boys at Buddles, I remain unconcerned, unrepentant, and fiercely committed to shining the light on what is going to be very, very difficult for them to prove is
not the
institutional skulduggery they're so keen to ensure remains secured firmly behind their Companion Animal "Hospital's" "ICU" doors.
My formal complaint to the OPC regarding Massey's Non-Compliance with the Privacy Act 2020, is below.
In the meantime, as I have pointed out in response to Huxley's threat, this is a hill I'm prepared to die on.
Massey and Buddles can go their hardest. Especially since their forcing the matter into court will result in the very thing they seek desperately to avoid: the forced submission of all their records, data, internal and external emails, and far more than they would otherwise have ended up releasing to me.
So they may, in fact, go their hardest.
In the meantime, readers, below is the formal complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner regarding Massey University's continued Non-Compliance with the Privacy Act 2020, over their legislatively obligated but unfulfilled release of Harry's full records (which also includes the
six videos of their treatment of Harry that they will now be as horrified to have to release to me as I will be to have to view them).
Readers who wish to be alerted to updates on this component of my continuing investigative work into all of the shameful factors contributing to my precious little Harry's demise, can subscribe
here.
I'll keep you posted as these are uploaded.
