Freedom of information and privacy: who owns board records?

ID:	HARP-322
Title:	Freedom of information and privacy: who owns board records?
Source:	Education Canada , v.43(3) Summ’03
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Year:	2003
Pages:	0
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Keywords:	Canada, complaint, economic, social, and cultural rights, human rights, legislation, civil and political rights, media, education, right to privacy
Abstract:	It is our experience that freedom of information and privacy legislation is being used with greater frequency and by a wider variety of actors. Traditionally, freedom of information legislation has been used by journalists, newspapers and other media to obtain information from school boards that is not otherwise publicly available. Increasingly, parents are now using freedom of information legislation to obtain access to their own and their child’s “personal information” held by the school board. Additionally, school boards are receiving “privacy complaints” from parents who feel that their child’s and/or their own personal information has been improperly released by the school board. There are also instances of school board employees filing privacy complaints against their employers.
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