Newfoundland and Labrador Information and Privacy Commissioner Ed Ring wants to make public a government sexual-exploitation study. The government says the 2011 report, It’s Nobody’s Mandate and Everyone’s Responsibility: Sexual Exploitation and the Sex Trade in Newfoundland and Labrador, was “based on interviews with sex workers and vulnerable individuals who could be put in danger if it was released publicly,” reports The Telegraph. However, if it intends to keep the report under wraps the government will now have to go to court. Ring wrote in his review, “Public bodies cannot rely on speculation that harm might take place but must establish a reasonable expectation,” adding that identifying information should be blacked out as opposed to repressing the entire report.
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