Can parents use the FOIP Act to find out which books their children have borrowed?
• Using a FOIP request to gain access to this information should be seen as a last resort. • However, if there is a FOIP request for this information, a library would need to consider whether a parent was acting in the place of his/her minor children, (with the age of the child being one consideration), and if that is not the case, consider whether it would be an unreasonable invasion of the child’s privacy to disclose the information.
