Emma Martins has served an enforcement notice on the Health department over the e-mail from Health Minister Stuart Syvret, after upholding a complaint from former Jersey Child Protection Committee chairman Iris Le Feuvre. Mrs Le Feuvre, the former St Lawrence Constable sacked by the minister after she called for him to resign in a letter to the Chief Minister, complained over what she called an outrageous breach of data protection rules involving ‘personal and highly sensitive information about a child who has been subjected to sexual abuse’. At the time, Senator Syvret claimed that the victim was ‘anonymised’ and that the e-mail was sent only to relevant agencies or people responsible for child protection – and he claimed the JCPC was irresponsibly misrepresenting events. But Mrs Martins said: ‘I have looked at compliance with the principles of the Data Protection Law and come to the conclusion that there has been a breach of the third principle, in that the data issued was excessive for the purposes and the e-mail should not have contained that amount of data. ‘Health have been asked to review their policies and procedures and create new ones in the light of the Data Protection Law, and I want to see the new documents within 30 days.’
Jersey Evening Post
