Can a Fire Prevention Inspection Report, prepared by a municipality, be released upon request to anyone?
• Fire Prevention Inspection Reports may be prepared at the request of a property owner or as part of a municipality’s Quality Management Plan. • Section 63(1) of the Safety Codes Act (SCA) applies to the release of these reports since they are created pursuant to the Alberta Fire Code which is considered to be an enactment under the SCA. That section imposes a duty on anyone administering the SCA to preserve the confidentiality of information and documents created for the purposes of the Act, except in certain circumstances. One of those circumstances would be disclosure of a Report with the consent of the owner. • If the Inspection Report relates to a building or other structure owned or leased by a municipality, provided any personal information of non-employees is severed, or their consent to the release of the information is obtained, the Inspection Report could be released without a FOIP request. • If the Inspection Report relates to a building or other structure that is not owne
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