CYFSA DECISION 2

Collection
Child, Youth, and Family Information and Privacy
Date
File Numbers
FA20-00011
Adjudicators
Catherine Corban
Decision Type
Decision
Applicable Legislation
CYFSA - 2(1)
CYFSA - 34(1)
CYFSA - 40(1)
CYFSA - 224
CYFSA - 225(2)
CYFSA - 226
CYFSA - 227(1)
CYFSA - 227(3)
CYFSA - 227(4)
CYFSA - 281
CYFSA - 285(1)
CYFSA - 285(4)
CYFSA - 312
CYFSA - 316
CYFSA - 346(1)17
CYFSA - Regulation 158/18 s. 2(1)
CYFSA - Regulation 158/18 s. 8
CYFSA - Regulation 158/18 s. 9
Vital Statistics Act – 48.1(1)
Vital Statistics Act – 48.6
Vital Statistics Act – 65(8)

An adopted person made a request to the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa (CASO) under the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 (the CYFSA or the Act), for access to all information about himself, including information about his birth parents. The CASO granted partial access to the requested records, having severed all identifying information about the requester’s birth parents. The requester filed a complaint with the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario (the IPC) because he seeks access to his birth parents’ identifying information.

The adjudicator finds that the identifying information about the requester’s birth parents is excluded from the scope of Part X of the CYFSA under the exception at section 285(4)(a) as information that relates to an adoption. As a result of the application of the exception, Part X does not apply to the requested information and the requester does not have a right of access to his birth parents’ identifying information under that part. The complaint is dismissed.