Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
August 14, 2007Report
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:
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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
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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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