Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
April 6, 2011

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
– Report A-2011-005 Released

The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ed Ring, has released his Report A-2011-005 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-2011-005
Report Date:     March 31, 2011
Public Body:      College of the North Atlantic

Summary:

The Applicant applied to the College of the North Atlantic under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the “ATIPPA”) for records containing her personal information which had been sent to the Canadian Information Processing Society in connection with an accreditation process. The College granted access to all responsive records found as a result of its search, subject to the severing of some personal information. The Applicant was not satisfied that the search had been properly conducted or that all responsive records had been provided to her, and requested that this Office review the decision of the College, stating that the College had failed to fulfill its duty to assist the Applicant under section 9 of the ATIPPA. The Commissioner concluded that the College had assisted the Applicant in the early stages of the request, had conducted a reasonable search for the requested records and had responded to the Applicant in an open, accurate and complete manner at all stages of the access and review processes, and consequently had fulfilled its duty to assist the Applicant. As a result the Commissioner made no recommendations arising out of this Review.

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Media contact:
Ed Ring
Information and Privacy Commissioner
709-729-6309

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