Collection
Child, Youth, and Family Information and Privacy
Date
File Numbers
FA21-00023
Adjudicators
Catherine Corban
Decision Type
Decision
Applicable Legislation
CYFSA - 312(1)(a)
CYFSA - 312(d)(iii)
PHIPA - 52(1)(e)(i)
PHIPA - 52(1)(e)(iii)
The complainant, a mother, sought access under the Act to her family’s entire file with the Jewish Family and Child Service of Greater Toronto (JFCS). JFCS granted the complainant partial access to the responsive records, denying access to some information pursuant to sections 312(1)(a) (legal privilege) and 312(1)(d)(iii) (identification of a source) of the Act. The complainant asked the IPC to review JFCS’s decision not to grant access to the information withheld under those sections.
In this decision, the adjudicator finds that the exemptions at sections 312(1)(a) and 312(1)(d)(iii) apply to the information for which they were claimed. She upholds JFCS’s decision not to grant the complainant access to the withheld information.