2010 Orders
Summaries of the Orders are prepared by Policy and Governance, Service Alberta, and are added to this page as soon as they are available.
Orders, New Releases, Summaries
F2010-034: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds finds Alberta Health Services was authorized to release some of the complainant's information, but disclosed more than necessary.
(Alberta Health Services) (Released June 14, 2011)
Key sections considered: 40(1)(l) & 40(4)
F2010-033:
Order has not yet been released.
F2010-032: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds the Edmonton Police Commission properly withheld records which were non-responsive and properly severed some information, however, ordered it to reconsider whether it properly severed other information.
(Edmonton Police Commission) (Released June 10, 2011)
Key sections considered: 1(n), 17, 23 & 24
F2010-031: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines the Edmonton Police Service properly severed some records but improperly withheld others.
(Edmonton Police Service) (Released May 10, 2011)
Key sections considered: 1(n), 4 & 17
F2010-030:
Order has not yet been released.
F2010-029: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines Alberta Employment and Immigration should release records relating to complaints made under the Alberta Employment Standards Code.
(Alberta Employment and Immigration) (Released Mary 12, 2011)
Key sections considered: 10, 12, 16 & 17
F2010-028: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines Alberta Children and Youth Services properly withheld some information but improperly withheld other information requested by the complainant.
(Alberta Children and Youth Services) (Released June 10, 2011)
Key sections considered: 10 & 17
F2010-027: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines the Alberta Transportation Safety Board properly collected and used personal information but disclosed more than was necessary.
(Alberta Transportation Safety Board) (Released April 27, 2011)
Key sections considered: 33, 34, 35, 39 & 40
F2010-026: Full Text | Addendum | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) properly withheld some information but ordered other information be released. [Commissioner reconsiders IPC Order 2010-026 and determines the AGLC properly withheld some information requested by the complainant but ordered it to release other information].
(Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission) (Released May 12, 2011)
Key sections considered: 12, 16 & 20
F2010-025: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office confirms the Edmonton Police Service's decision to withhold personal information.
(Edmonton Police Service) (Released May 10, 2011)
Key sections considered: 17
F2010-024: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds that the Town of Bruderheim properly withheld a letter requested pursuant to section 17 of the FOIP Act in order to protect the writer's privacy.
(Town of Bruderheim) (Released February 23, 2011)
F2010-023: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds the Edmonton Police Commission failed to meet its duty to assist and ordered it to make every reasonable effort to provide the applicant with a more open, accurate and complete response.
(Edmonton Policy Commission) (Released March 8, 2011)
Key sections considered: 2, 4, 6 & 10
F2010-022: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds that the University of Calgary properly withheld some information, however, it improperly withheld other information and failed to meet its duty to assist the applicant.
(University of Calgary) (Released February 17, 2011)
F2010-021: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines that the Calgary Police Service complied with the FOIP Act in collecting and disclosing the complainant's personal information for the purposes of law enforcement.
(Calgary Policy Service) (Released February 9, 2011)
F2010-020: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines that Alberta Advanced Education and Technology's release of personal information contained in a tax return to that person's child was an invasion of personal privacy and ordered it to cease disclosing such information.
(Alberta Advanced Education and Technology) (Released February 9, 2011)
F2010-019: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds that the City of Edmonton could not disclose names of individuals who settled lawsuits wtih the Edmonton Policy Service which would reveal personal information about those individuals.
(City of Edmonton) (Released February 17, 2011)
F2010-018: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines that Alberta Employment and Immigration properly withheld records related to a workplace fatality.
(Alberta Employment and Immigration) (Released January 18, 2011)
F2010-017:
Order has not yet been released.
F2010-016: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines the University of Calgary properly withheld a record.
(University of Calgary) (Released January 13, 2011)
Key sections considered: 4
F2010-015: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines that Alberta Transportation properly withheld records related to reports on a high speed rail system in Alberta.
(Alberta Transportation) (Released December 15, 2010)
F2010-014:
Order has not yet been released.
F2010-013: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds that Alberta Health and Wellness (AHW) improperly severed information from records pursuant to sections 16 and 17 of the FOIP Act and orders AHW to release additional information to the applicant.
(Alberta Health and Wellness) (Released December 23, 2010)
F2010-012: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines that notes provided to a Committee of Investigation at the University of Calgary are not subject to the FOIP Act and that other records were properly severed.
(University of Calgary) (Released December 9, 2010)
F2010-011: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office upholds a decision by the County of Vermilion No. 24 to refuse a fee waiver on the basis that the applicants were requesting information based on commercial and private interests, rather than a concern on behalf of the public.
(County of Vermilion No. 24) (Released December 7, 2010)
F2010-010: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds that the Edmonton Police Service properly exercised its discretion in applying section 12(2) of the FOIP Act to neither confirm or deny the existence of records requested by an applicant.
(Edmonton Police Service) (Released November 17, 2010)
F2010-009: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds that Agriculture Financial Services Corporation did not release personal information when it released information about a farming operation.
(Agriculture Financial Services Corporation) (Released November 4, 2010)
F2010-008: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds that the Edmonton Police Service properly withheld portions of its training manual on officer safety on the basis that such disclosure could be harmful to law enforcement.
(Edmonton Police Service) (Released October 7, 2010)
F2010-007: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office confirms the County of Thorhild No. 7’s decision to withhold most of the information from a lawyer’s bills of account, but orders the release of information that would not enable the applicant to learn privileged communications.
(County of Thorhild No. 7) (Released October 7, 2010)
F2010-006: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner's office finds that it cannot review whether the Calgary Board of Education (the Board) properly refused to allow the applicant to examine records as authorized by section 4 of the FOIP Regulation as the Board has not yet decided to give the applicant access to any records.
(Calgary Board of Education) (Released September 21, 2010)
F2010-005: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner's office confirms a decision by Alberta Justice and Attorney General to refuse a fee waiver and determines the fee estimate was reasonable given the breadth of the access request.
(Alberta Justice and Attorney General) (Released July 21, 2010)
F2010-004: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office confirms Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security’s decision to refuse to waive fees for records relating to safety measures in place in the courthouses on the basis that the applicant had not established that the records related to a matter of public interest.
(Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security) (Released July 13, 2010)
F2010-003: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office determines an organization lacks standing to make complaint against the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) as there was no evidence that the personal information provided to or collected by the WCB was that of the complainant.
(Workers' Compensation Board) (Released November 4, 2010)
F2010-002: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds that partial address information withheld by the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) is not personal information and orders EPS to disclose the address information to the applicant.
(Edmonton Police Service) (Released July 9, 2010)
F2010-001: Full Text | News Release
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s office finds that Alberta Environment met its duty to assist an applicant and that the names and addresses of third parties was properly withheld under section 17 of the FOIP Act.
(Alberta Environment) (Released June 9, 2010)
