Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner – Report A-2024-003 Released

  • Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner

January 19, 2024

The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Michael Harvey, has released his Report A-2024-003 under authority of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 2015. A summary of the Report is included below.

To view the Report in its entirety, please go to www.oipc.nl.ca/reports/commissioner.

Report: A-2024-003
Report Date: January 18, 2024
Public Body: Memorial University
Summary: The Complainant made an access request to Memorial University for correspondence to or from the Student Code of Conduct Coordinator about proposed changes to the University’s Student Code of Conduct. Memorial’s final response contained (among other records) a report commissioned by Memorial containing recommendations for changes to the Student Code of Conduct. Much of the report had been redacted pursuant to section 29 (policy advice). After a review of the redactions, this Office concurred with Memorial that the information was policy advice and could be withheld.

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