
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 . . . along with the footage of his "stay" in their veterinary "hospital" (or, more aptly put, its laboratory-style "teaching facility") that Massey's suits really, really, really don't want me to see.
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.
From blatant fabrications such as this entry:
"08:00AM Owner Called/Updated" (NO, "OWNER" WAS NEVER "CALLED/UPDATED" AT 8AM!)" . . . (with no-one available to question as to why this false entry was made since ALL names throughout the entirety of Harry's records have been blacked out) . . .
. . . to the very many other concerns over what appear (very obviously to me, as a skilled writer and editor dealing with the output of thousands of authors 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 Media Releases to Massey itself upon distribution of them 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, Massey appears 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 Office of the Privacy Commissioner (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 . . . just one hour and 29 minutes short of what he seems to now realise is my serious intention.
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 the shameful false pretences of his proteges in Massey's Companion Animal "Hospital".
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.
As I have pointed out in my response to Huxley's threat, this is a hill I'm prepared to die on.
So 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.
In the meantime, I will continue on with the grinding but necessary work - for my beloved Harry's sake and for the sake of all other pets and their owners who enter that very (according to my and Harry's tragic experience) risk-ridden facility - of producing a large, comprehensive and very revealing document about the numerous breaches of the Privacy Act (as it pertains to information accuracy and release).
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.
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