Akshay Kulkarni reports:
B.C.’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has found two police departments improperly accessed the personal information of a Victoria man who previously filed freedom-of-information requests with them.
Blogger Stephen Harrison, who regularly files FOI requests with the Victoria and Saanich police departments on Vancouver Island, uses the data for his personal website — which documents the behaviour of the police forces in their interactions with marginalized people.
After a number of such data requests, Harrison requested his own records from the two organizations.
He found out that three employees — one from the VicPD, and two from the SPD — had conducted police record searches in the Police Records Information Management Environment (PRIME) database immediately following his requests.
Read more at CBC.
h/t, Joe Cadillic