Two Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations, including one in Coldstream, will have to submit personal information records requested by their former members to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) following a B.C. Supreme Court ruling.
The congregations had refused to share their former members’ personal information with them on the basis of protecting their religious freedoms.
In 2020, Gabriel Liberty Wall and Gregory Westgarde each requested documents from their former congregations.