The complainant, a teacher who was interviewed by a children’s aid society (CAS) as part of an investigation, requested the correction of the CAS record detailing his interview. The CAS, which had provided the complainant with a severed copy of the record of his interview, refused the correction request and advised the complainant that he could make a complaint about the refusal to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario under the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017.
The adjudicator determines that there are no reasonable grounds to conduct a review of the subject-matter of the complaint and that a review is not warranted. She bases her determination on her finding that the complainant has no right to request that the children’s aid society correct the record under section 315(2) of the Act because he has no right of access to the record under section 312(1) of the Act; an individual’s right to request a correction under section 315(2) is limited to records to which the individual has a right of access under section 312(1). As a result, the adjudicator declines to conduct a review and she dismisses the complaint.