BC Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham is investigating a complaint about the review of a case by a former Ministry of Children and Family Development employee, Times Colonist reports. The ministry “has frozen access to files” in the abuse case during the investigation, the report states, noting the mother of the children in the case filed a complaint “about an external review of the case by former deputy minister Bob Plecas” and is objecting “to Plecas or any of his team having access to her personal information or that of her children.” Following her complaint to Denham, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and ministry agreed “to shut down access until the complaint is resolved,” the report states.
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