POPA & ATIA Readiness Check

How ready is your municipality?

FOIP is gone. Alberta's Protection of Privacy Act and Access to Information Act replaced it, and they ask for things FOIP never did. Tick what's already true — and see where you stand.

Two minutes. Eighteen questions. Nothing required to see your result.

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1 Privacy Governance POPA · Privacy management program
A program that exists on paper, has a name attached, and a date when someone looks at it again. Most municipalities have two of the three.
2 Breach Readiness POPA · Breach notification
The hard part isn't responding. It's deciding, quickly, whether the threshold was met — easier written down in advance than invented on a Friday afternoon.
3 Records & Audit Trail POPA · Safeguards
A log nobody reads is a file, not a safeguard. An auditor asks who reviews it, and how often — not whether it exists.
4 Access Requests ATIA · Duty to assist
The duty is judged on effort, and effort only counts if it's visible. Record what you searched and what you offered, not just what you sent.
5 Active Disclosure ATIA · Records without a request
Every record published well is a request never filed — and a clock you never have to watch.
6 Staff Awareness & Use The human layer
The rules that hold are the ones nobody has to remember, because the process carries them.
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POPA & ATIA Readiness Check

This is a readiness aid, not an assessment. The measured version finds where your records actually live, who can see them and whether they can be produced on request, and ends in a ranked plan you can start on — that's the Document Management Program Review. For the whole organization at once, there's the New Leader Baseline.

Not legal advice. This reflects Alberta's Protection of Privacy Act and Access to Information Act, which replaced FOIP on 11 June 2025. Confirm your own obligations against the legislation, the regulations, or your counsel.