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New case note: Council not entitled to withhold internal workshop presentation

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Palmerston North City Council was not entitled to withhold a PowerPoint presentation made to a council workshop from a journalist.

There was no evidence that future exchange of free and frank opinions would be inhibited as a result of release, and Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier found that LGOIMA provisions were misapplied.

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