Personal Information Corrected

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) finally corrected personal information and issued an updated clearance certificate following the intervention of the Commission in an application for review to the Commission for refusing to correct the record of personal information.

Mr. Yegon made an application for review to the Commission under the access to information law following the failure of the DCI to correct information on his Certificate of Good Conduct. According to him, he had been charged with the offense of having fake currency. However, upon conclusion of the investigations, no culpability was found against him leading to the withdrawal of the charges. Subsequently, he sought to be issued a Police Clearance Certificate in January 2023 which was a requisite document for an employment opportunity that he was desirous of making an application.

However, upon being issued with the certificate, it emerged that the information therein was yet to be corrected and he sought the correction of the same by the DCI. There was a delay in effecting this correction prompting him to appeal to the Commission.

The Commission took up the matter with the DCI in line with section 13(1) of the Access to Information Act which provides;

“At the request of the applicant, a public entity or private body shall within a reasonable time, at its own expense, correct, update or annotate any personal information held by it relating to the applicant, which is out of date, inaccurate or incomplete.”

The intervention of the Commission led to the correction of the information and subsequent issuance of a Police Clearance Certificate