{"podcast":{"title":"The Detail","slug":"the-detail-83432","podcast_index_feed_id":83432,"rss_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcasts/acast/the-detail.rss","website_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-detail","image_url":"https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--5VqWMFX4--/t_kt-podcast-external-cover-feeds/4JV2TPU_the_detail_cover_external_v2_png.jpg?_a=BAMAMiiu0.jpg","author":"RNZ","episode_count":300,"summary":"Join The Detail team six days a week as they make sense of the big stories with the country’s best journalists and experts.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T04:22:07.128745+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432"},"episode":{"title":"The 'toothless' law keeping us in the dark","slug":"the-toothless-law-keeping-us-in-the-dark","published_at":"2026-06-11T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432/the-toothless-law-keeping-us-in-the-dark","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432","url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-detail?share=5eadc21b-8f90-415a-9deb-c2bad642d4d5","audio_url":"https://flex.acast.com/media.rnztools.nz/rnz-kete-oro-prod/video/private/ac_mp3,af_48000,br_192k,f_mp3,fl_attachment/v1781146022/audio/thedetail/thedetail-20260612-0400-the_toothless_law_keeping_us_in_the_dark.mp3","summary":"A former chief ombudsman threatened to ask NZ's top law office to prosecute our health service. It's just one example of why he thinks the OIA needs to be reformed. A former chief ombudsman says many agencies are 'making a mountain out of a molehill' in their responses - or lack of response - to Official Information Act requests, and it's time the Act sees reform Find The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details","meta_description":"A former chief ombudsman threatened to ask NZ's top law office to prosecute our health service. It's just one example of why he thinks the OIA needs to be…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1505,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-detail-83432/episodes/the-toothless-law-keeping-us-in-the-dark/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432/the-toothless-law-keeping-us-in-the-dark.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}