Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner – Report A-2024-024 Released

  • Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner

May 31, 2024

The Acting Information and Privacy Commissioner, Jacqueline Lake Kavanagh, has released her Report A-2024-024 under authority of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 2015. A summary of the Report is included below.

To view the Report in its entirety, please go to www.oipc.nl.ca/reports/reports/.

Report: A-2024-024
Report Date: May 29, 2024
Public Body: Department of Education
Summary: The Complainant submitted an access request to the Department of Education for any records about complaints against an employee as well as any information the public body may have forwarded to police regarding the employee. The Department relied on section 17(2) of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 2015 to neither confirm nor deny whether responsive records exist. This Office found that the Department correctly applied section 17(2)(b).

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