Access to Information Orders
Decision Information
The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (the Ministry) received the following request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to:
. . . all information you may possess regarding [a specified occurrence], including the specifics of any and all statements made regarding my person; plus any disposition the O.P.P. arrived at regarding said "occurrences".
The Ministry located a number of responsive records and granted partial access to them. Access to the remaining records, and parts of records, was denied pursuant to the following exemptions found in the Act:
• section 49(a) (discretion to refuse requester’s own information), in conjunction with sections 14(1)(e)(endanger life or safety), 14(1)(l) (facilitate commission of an unlawful act) and 14(2)(a) (law enforcement report); and
• section 49(b) of the Act, relying on the consideration in section 21(2)(f) and the presumption in section 21(3)(b).
The Ministry also informed the requester that the records appear to contain information that is not responsive to his request. The requester (now the appellant) appealed the Ministry’s decision.
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Decision Content
NATURE OF THE APPEAL:
The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (the Ministry) received the following request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to:
. . . all information you may possess regarding [a specified occurrence], including the specifics of any and all statements made regarding my person; plus any disposition the O.P.P. arrived at regarding said “occurrences”.