Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And the access privacy office has seen an increase in requests and an increase in the complexity of those requests. I'm not sure if there's a huge public demand. It's a relatively small group of people that are being served by that office. There's companies, there's lawyers, there's individuals who are requesting documents that, you know, end up being tens of thousands or thousands of pages. Every single one of those pages has to be found, discovered by someone in say, for example, MACA, who has two people working full-time to fill these requests for a very very very small segment of the territory. They then have to go to the access and privacy office, and they go through line by line, sometimes tens of thousands of pages, so it is a lot of work. The office has -- the access and privacy office has seen some vacancies. Those are in the process of being filled, in some cases double filled. And hopefully this month -- I'm expecting that this month that office will be back to full strength. Thank you.
R.J. Simpson on Question 36-20(1): Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Requests
In the Legislative Assembly on February 8th, 2024. See this statement in context.
Question 36-20(1): Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Requests
Oral Questions
February 8th, 2024
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