The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ed Ring, has released his Report A-2009-011 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.nl.ca/accessreports.htm

Report:            A-2009-011
Report Date:    October 30, 2009
Public Body:    College of North Atlantic
Summary:       
The Applicant applied to the College of the North Atlantic ("the College") pursuant to the   Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the "ATIPPA") for access to the admissions policy section from an Operational Policy and Procedures Manual referred to in the testimony of a College official at a Public Service Commission hearing. The College provided the Applicant with several documents. The Applicant filed a Request for Review stating that the documents received were not the records requested. The Commissioner found that the College had not provided the Applicant with the records he requested; that the records supplied bore no reasonable resemblance either to what was requested or to what was described by the College official in her testimony; and that the requested records probably do not exist. The Commissioner further concluded that the College had failed to fulfill its duty to assist the Applicant, by failing to complete a reasonable search, by failing to respond to the Applicant in an open or complete manner, and by failing to answer his reasonable questions.

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