The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has released Report A-2025-012 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-2025-012 |
| Report Date: | March 3, 2025 |
| Public Body: | Town of Gander |
| Summary: | The Complainant made an access to information request to the Town of Gander seeking records that contained their name and email address. The search performed by the Town produced several thousand individual records, though the Town determined that only approximately 400 records were responsive. At issue was the Town’s unilateral determination of what a key term in the access request meant. The Commissioner found that the Town did not adequately communicate with the Complainant regarding the scope of the access request and as a result the Town did not meet its section 13(1) duty to assist. The Commissioner also reviewed the exceptions to access that the Town applied to the responsive records and recommended that the information withheld pursuant to sections 28(1) (local public body confidences) and 29(1) (policy advice or recommendations) be released to the Complainant. |
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