Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner – Report A-2024-036 Released

  • Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner

July 25, 2024

The Acting Information and Privacy Commissioner, Jacqueline Lake Kavanagh, has released her Report A-2024-036 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-2024-036
Report Date: July 23, 2024
Public Body: Department of Justice and Public Safety
Summary: The Department of Justice and Public Safety received a request for video recordings depicting an incident involving the Complainant. By the time the Department initiated a search for the records they had been overwritten and therefore permanently lost. The Commissioner found that the Department had failed to meet its statutory responsibilities under sections 13 (duty to assist applicant), 14 (transferring a request), 16 (time limit for final response) and 65 (retention of personal information subject to an access request).

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