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August 10, 2006
(Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner)
 

The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Phil Wall, has released his Report 2006-013 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.gov.nl.ca/oipc

Report 2006-013
Report Date: August 1, 2006
Public Body: College of the North Atlantic

Summary: The applicant applied to the College of the North Atlantic ("CNA") under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the "ATIPPA") for access to records which reference him from within a group of e-mails which were compiled by CNA in response to a previous search requested by the applicant�s spouse. The applicant also asked that any responsive records which also reference his spouse not be severed. CNA provided access to a number of records as a result of this request, but the applicant applied to the commissioner for a review. The applicant also filed a separate Request for Review stating that CNA had not notified him of its intention to apply an extension to the time limit for issuing its response. The commissioner combined both of these reviews in issuing this report. During the process of this review, additional records were disclosed by CNA to the applicant, some during informal resolution efforts coordinated by this office, while others were disclosed voluntarily by CNA during the formal investigation phase prior to the release of this report. The commissioner found that once these additional records were disclosed, CNA had properly disclosed all e-mail records to which the applicant was entitled. The commissioner also found that CNA had erred in not notifying the applicant of its intention to apply an extension to the time limit for issuing a response. Finally, the commissioner also commented on some of the other issues of concern raised by the applicant in his submission.

Media contact: Sandy Hounsell, Executive Director (709) 729-6309

2006 08 10                                   10:35 a.m.


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