An adopted person and former child in care made a request to Family and Children’s Services Niagara (FACS Niagara) under the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 (CYFSA or the Act), for access to all records containing his personal information, including his adoption file. FACS Niagara granted partial access to the requested records, disclosing all non-identifying information to the requester. The requester filed a complaint with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (the IPC) because he seeks access to all records containing his personal information, without redactions.
In this decision, the adjudicator finds that the information in the records is excluded from the scope of Part X of the CYFSA under section 285(4)(a) because it is information related to an adoption. As a result of the application of the exclusion, Part X does not apply and the requester does not have a right of access to the redacted information under that part. The complaint is dismissed.