New Zealand -
The State Services Commission delivered a damning report
into the use of companies like Thompson and Clark (Investigations Limited) to carry out
surveillance on protestors, activists and other members of the public,
as well as inappropriately close relationship between investigators and
some public servants.
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The Commissioner described the way some agencies allowed some New
Zealanders to be targeted by investigators as an affront to democracy.
The report has already claimed its
first casualty.
Ross Butler quit as chair
of the government insurance agency Southern Response last night before
his meeting with the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Minister Megan
Woods.
The insurer broke its code of conduct, and possibly the law, when it
used security firm Thompson and Clark to secretly record meetings of
earthquake victims.
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