Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 24 July 2025. 151 another party. It is confidential technical information which resulted from the expenditure of money and the application of skill and effort to develop. Therefore SHA has a proprietary interest in the file path addresses/links, barcodes, host/server names, directory structure and credentials. SHA has a right to use the information and it has a legal claim to the use of the information and an authority to use it. In terms of the third and final part of the test, the file path, address/links and barcodes had a high value for parties who seek to do harm to SHA and to release this information would expose the organization to a great deal of system risk including a cybersecurity attack. As a result there is also a very high risk of financial damage should this information be released. Subsection 17(1)(c) Economic and other interests 17(1) A head may refuse to give access to a record that could reasonably be expected to disclose: … (c) scientific or technical information obtained through research by an employee of the local authority, the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to deprive the employee of priority of publication; … (2) A head shall not refuse, pursuant to subsection (1), to give access to a record that contains the results of product or environmental testing carried out by or for the local authority, unless the testing was conducted: (a) as a service to a person, a group of persons or an organization other than the local authority, and for a fee; or (b) as preliminary or experimental tests for the purpose of: (i) developing methods of testing; or (ii) testing products for possible purchase. Subsection 17(1)(c) of LA FOIP is a discretionary harm-based exemption. It permits refusal of access in situations where release of a record could reasonably be expected to disclose scientific or technical information obtained through research by an employee of a local authority, the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to deprive the employee of priority of publication.
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