FOIP guidelines and practices 2009
The 2009 edition of FOIP Guidelines and Practices incorporates amendments to the FOIP legislation up to June 1, 2009, including the FOIP Amendment Act, 2006 and the new FOIP Regulation (2008). This edition references Commissioner's Orders and Investigation Reports released up to December 31, 2008.
Datasets available for download
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Contents and detailed table of contents PDF
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Preface PDF
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Chapter 1. Purposes and scope of the FOIP Act PDF
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Chapter 2. Administration of the FOIP Act PDF
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Chapter 3. Access to records PDF
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Chapter 4. Exceptions to the right of access PDF
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Chapter 5. Third party notice PDF
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Chapter 6. Disclosure in the public interest PDF
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Chapter 7. Protection of privacy PDF
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Chapter 8. Records and information management PDF
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Chapter 9. Privacy compliance PDF
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Chapter 10. Information and privacy commissioner PDF
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Appendix 1. Definitions PDF
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Appendix 2. Delegation and assignment of...PDF
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Appendix 3. Model letters PDF
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Appendix 4. Model FOIP request charts PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 112 - request to access...PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 116 - request statistics report PDF
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Appendix 5. Form - transmittal memorandum (sample) OTHERS
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Appendix 5. Form SA 117 - access request...PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 118 - access request...PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 118 - access request...PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 113 - request to correct...PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 119 - annotation to...PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 120 - law enforcement disclosure PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 121 - authorization of...PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 114 - proposal to access...PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 115 - agreement for...PDF
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Appendix 5. Form SA 0112 - Office of the...PDF
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FOIP Act and regulation citations indexPDF
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Information and Privacy Commissioner's order...PDF
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Words and phrases defined or discussed indexPDF
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Subject index PDF
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| Last Updated | October 20, 2025, 00:51 (UTC) |
| Created | October 20, 2025, 00:51 (UTC) |
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Laws and Justice |
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Title
Title for the Dataset.
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FOIP guidelines and practices 2009 |
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Description
A description of the dataset.
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The 2009 edition of FOIP Guidelines and Practices incorporates amendments to the FOIP legislation up to June 1, 2009, including the FOIP Amendment Act, 2006 and the new FOIP Regulation (2008). This edition references Commissioner's Orders and Investigation Reports released up to December 31, 2008. |
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Metadata Identifier
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Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
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Start date of the data in the dataset.
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Time Period Data Span (end date)
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GeoSpatial Area Data Span
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Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
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unrestricted |
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License
License used to access the dataset.
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Open Government Licence - Alberta |
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Limits on use
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Location
Location of the dataset.
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https://open.alberta.ca/publications/9780778585633 |
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Data Service
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Owner
Owner of the dataset.
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Service Alberta |
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Contact Point
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Contact Point Email
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Publisher
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Publisher Email
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Author
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Author Email
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Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
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Language
Language(s) of the dataset
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Link to dataset description
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Globally Unique Identifier
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Contains data about individuals
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Contains data about identifiable individuals
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Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
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Platform type of the source portal.
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Version
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Source
Source of the dataset.
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Version notes
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Is version of another dataset
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Other versions
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Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
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Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
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Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
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GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
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Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
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The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
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Number of data rows
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Number of data columns
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Number of data cells
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Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
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Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
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Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
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Data quality
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
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Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.
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