VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government has a year to fix its child protection laws after an Appeal Court panel found the legislation unreasonably gave social workers power to access parents' highly sensitive medical information. The B.C.
VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government has a year to fix its child protection laws after an Appeal Court panel found the legislation unreasonably gave social workers power to access parents' highly sensitive medical information.
The section of the act was not"minimally intrusive" as a lower court found and could give access to"intensely private information" that may not have been a necessary part of an investigation, the panel says in its ruling. In a phone interview Tuesday, Penney said the B.C. Court of Appeal found the legislation gave front-line child protection workers access to a subject's medical information without having to demonstrate if a request for that information was reasonable.
The broad powers given to child protection workers made the law"highly vulnerable to this kind of challenge," he said.
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