Archive (Tag: administration of legislation)
The Rules of Procedure changes
On September 1, 2018 my office posted the Rules of Procedure. I hope these rules have clarified the processes used by my office in a review for investigation. We have found that occasionally the fourteen days contained in a notice of review or the seven days to respond to a draft report has to be... read more
Rules of Procedure
The amendments to The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP) provide that the Information and Privacy Commissioner can develop Rules of Procedure. When I was first appointed, I heard people saying or asking, “Just be clear in what you require”. One step in that direction was to develop an IPC Guide to... read more
Third parties under FOIP and LA FOIP
In other blogs I have talked about public bodies and third parties. If a public body is a city, town or municipality, legislation requires the disclosure of contracts and The Local Authority Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (LAFOIP) requires the same unless part of the contract falls under one of the exemptions.... read more
Proactively reporting breaches to the IPC
As our office is always trying to improve our processes, we have recently formalized the way we treat privacy breaches that are proactively reported to our office. Proactively reporting a breach means that when a public body or trustee learns of a privacy breach in its organization, it reports it to our office. While not... read more