Information and Privacy Commissioner of Nova Scotia Catherine Tully is backing an 86-year-old man’s request to identify his birth father, CBC News reports. The unidentified man has been unable to obtain his father’s name from government agencies, but received good news when the commissioner advised the Department of Community Services to deliver the information. Placed in foster care in 1931, the man’s records had the father’s name, but no other identification. Because the man was in foster care, and wasn’t adopted, he was able to make the request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Tully said releasing the information is in the best interest of the man, and disclosing the information of the father’s name was not unreasonable, given he likely died 30 years earlier.
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