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November 16, 2005
(Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner)
The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Phil
Wall, has released his Report 2005-006 under authority of the Access to
Information and Protection of Privacy Act. A summary of the report is included
below.
To view the report in its entirety, please go to
//www.oipc.gov.nl.ca/
| Report |
2005-006 |
| Report Date: |
November 14,
2005 |
| Public Body: |
College of the
North Atlantic |
| Summary: |
The applicant
applied on 14 January 2005 under the Access to Information and
Protection of Privacy Act (ATIPPA) for six different types of records.
The College of the North Atlantic (CNA) did not respond to this request
within the time frames as set out by the ATIPPA, and Report 2005-001
addressed this issue. The applicant was eventually sent a large
collection of records in response to his request. On 6 June 2005 the
applicant forwarded a second Request for Review to the Commissioner�s
Office asking the commissioner to review whether the college had
provided all of the information to which he was entitled. One matter
involved a large set of e-mail correspondence. The applicant asked the
commissioner to determine whether material which was withheld by the
college was done appropriately. Following informal discussions with this
office, CNA agreed to release further e-mail records. The Commissioner�s
Office concurs that the e-mail records released are appropriate, and
that CNA has now released all e-mail records to which the applicant is
entitled. The applicant also believed that a set of legal invoices which
had been provided to him as a result of his previous search was
incomplete. The Commissioner�s Office was asked to review whether in
fact CNA had provided all of the records in question. Since the
applicant filed his review, other records were identified by CNA as
being responsive to that request. The commissioner found that the
college was not thorough enough in its search for those records, and
that there were serious flaws in its record keeping system. |
Media contact: Sandy Hounsell, Executive
Director, (709) 729-6309
2005 11 16
1:55 p.m. |
