The complainant sought access under the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 (the Act) for his family’s entire case file with the York Region Children’s Aid Society (the society). The society granted access, in part, denying access to the name of an individual pursuant to the exemption at section 312(1)(d)(ii) of the Act (identification of an individual required by law to provide information to a service provider). The complainant filed a complaint with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC), asking the IPC to review the society’s decision to withhold the individual’s name.
In this decision, the adjudicator finds that the exemption at section 312(1)(d)(ii) applies to the name withheld from the record and upholds the society’s decision not to provide it to the complainant.