PC-000022-1

The Ministry of Community and Social Services (the Ministry) notified the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s Office (the IPC) about a possible breach of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act). The Ministry explained that a television reporter had contacted the Ministry about confidential information that was found in a garbage bag in a dumpster area near a specified youth Observation and Detention Home (the Home). The Ministry also advised the IPC that it was in the process of conducting an investigation into this matter, and subsequently provided this Office with a copy of its Compliance Review Report (the Report) which outlined the results of the internal investigation.

• FIPPA
• 40(4)

• in dumpster