Criticism of the municipal executive board in Gagnef municipality for publishing information from a whistle-blower investigation without assessing with sufficient care how the identities of the persons concerned would be protected

Summary of the decision: In a whistle-blowing case, the municipality published what is referred to as a preliminary investigation on its website. The persons’ names in the case had been replaced with their job titles, but nevertheless could be easily linked to them.

The Parliamentary Ombudsman states that the assessment of how the identity of the persons concerned should be protected upon publication was not carried out with sufficient care and criticises the municipal executive board for this.