Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
August 20, 2014

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner – Report A-2014-010 Released

The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ed Ring, has released his Report A-2014-010 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.nl.ca/accessreports.htm .

Report:	A-2014-010
Report Date:	August 11, 2014
Public Body:	Newfoundland and Labrador English School District (formerly Nova Central School District)
Summary:	The Applicant made an access request to Nova Central School District (“NCSD”) for records containing reference to himself, including hard cover notebooks that he argued should exist, and documents that might be used in an ongoing arbitration hearing. NCSD refused access to the notes on the grounds that they either did not exist or had already been provided in response to an earlier access request, and refused access to the other documents claiming the exception in section 21 (legal advice.) The Commissioner determined that NCSD had conducted a reasonable search for the notebooks and it was reasonable to conclude that they did not exist, and that NCSD had appropriately applied the section 21 exception to the remaining records.

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Media contact:
Ed Ring
Information and Privacy Commissioner
709-729-6309
ering@oipc.nl.ca

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