Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
August 14, 2007

Report 2007-010

The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Phil Wall, has released his Report 2007-010 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/reports.htm.

Report: 2007-010
Report Date: August 7, 2007
Public Body: College of the North Atlantic
Summary: The Applicant applied to the College of the North Atlantic ("CNA") for access to certain e-mail records. CNA responded by disclosing some records, and withholding others under sections 20, 24, 27 and 30 of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the "ATIPPA"). The Applicant then asked the Commissioner to review the decision of CNA to withhold some of the requested information. During informal resolution efforts, CNA dropped its reliance on sections 24 and 27, and agreed to release all additional records which were proposed for release by the Commissioner�s Office. When these additional records were released to the Applicant, the Applicant discovered that there were pages missing from the agreed upon disclosure. The Applicant then decided not to resolve the matter informally and asked the Commissioner to proceed with a Report. The Commissioner determined that CNA was deficient in fulfilling its duty to assist the Applicant in that it did not take care to ensure that all records which it had agreed to release were in fact released to the Applicant. The Commissioner also determined, however, that the deficiency was relatively minor in nature. The Commissioner recommended that care be taken by CNA in the future to ensure that all records designated for disclosure to an applicant are in fact disclosed.


 

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Media contact:
Sandy Hounsell
Executive Director
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
709-729-6309

2007 08 14                                    11:20 a.m.

 


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