The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario received a privacy complaint alleging that the Township of Tay (the township) contravened the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) when it published council meeting minutes with the complainants' personal information online and made a hard copy of those minutes available to the public. The IPC opened a privacy complaint to review the township’s disclosure of the information at issue. During the early stages of the complaint, the township removed the complainants’ names and address from the version of the meeting minutes available online.
This report finds that the some of the information contained in the meeting minutes is personal information. This report also finds that the township’s disclosure of the personal information in the meeting minutes was not in accordance with section 32 of the Act.