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Ca: Ex-cop fined $7,500 for accessing daughter’s health records

Posted on September 23, 2017June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Dean Pritchard reports:

In what is the first case of its kind in the province, a former Manitoba Health employee who accessed the medical records of his estranged daughter has been fined $7,500.

The 58-year-old accused, a retired city police officer, was convicted after trial earlier this year of one count of accessing personal health information in violation of the Personal Health Information Act.

[…]

Court heard at trial the man accessed his daughter’s private health records in April 2014 after learning from his ex-wife that she had been hospitalized for psychiatric issues.

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