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.