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April 29, 2010

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner — Report A-2010-004 Released

The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ed Ring, has released his Report A-2010-004 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-2010-004
Report Date:    April 22, 2010
Public Body:    Department of Justice
Summary:    The Applicant applied under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the "ATIPPA") for access to records held by the Department of Justice (the "Department") relating to a 1985 criminal trial. The Department advised the Applicant that the records in question (most of which had been provided to the Applicant in response to a previous informal request) were now missing. Upon review the Commissioner determined that the only issue was whether the Department had fulfilled its duty to assist the Applicant, under section 9 of the ATIPPA, by conducting an adequate search for the missing records. The Commissioner concluded that the Department had done everything that could be reasonably expected of it to locate the missing records and therefore had fulfilled its duty to assist the Applicant. Accordingly no recommendation was made.

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Media contact:

Ed Ring
Information and Privacy Commissioner
709-729-6309

2010 04 29                                                     11:25 a.m.
 


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