Dimitrijev and Education Queensland
(1999 S0224, 31 May 2000)
The applicant applied to the respondent for amendment of its computerised personnel database, to remove certain information which she believed was being used to prevent her from obtaining employment as a teacher. At the applicant's request, the respondent had already added an explanatory comment to the database, but it refused to further amend, or to delete, the disputed information.
The Deputy Information Commissioner found that there was no legal requirement under s.53 of the FOI Act for the respondent to amend the disputed information, which related to the applicant's refusal of three offers of teaching contracts, as it did not relate to her personal affairs. The Deputy Information Commissioner also found that even if the disputed information had related to the applicant's personal affairs, it was not inaccurate, incomplete, out-of date or misleading, as the applicant had not accepted the three offers and her reason for doing so was recorded on the database.
