Access to Information Orders
Decision Information
• Municipality requests unsevered copy of letter from York Regional Police to the affected party, which the affected party had previously disclosed to the municipality in part.
• Section 2(1) "personal information" -- the record contains the affected party's personal information, but some withheld information is not personal information.
• Section 14(1) (personal privacy) upheld.
• Information other than personal information is not exempt under section 14(1). Police ordered to disclose portions of the record that are not personal information.
Decision Content
BACKGROUND:
In an effort to motivate a municipality to launch an investigation, an individual (the affected party) sent the municipality a copy of a letter he had received from the York Regional Police Service. The affected party withheld most of the information in the letter but for his name and address, and a paragraph stating that a preliminary investigation had been undertaken by York Regional Police Service, which concluded that a further investigation was warranted. The municipality subsequently made an access-to-information request to the York Regional Police Services Board (the Police) to obtain an unsevered copy of the letter.
NATURE OF THE APPEAL:
The municipality’s access request to the Police was made under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act.) The request was for the following:
… An unsevered copy of the July 7, 2005 letter that was sent from York Regional Police to [affected party]. This letter is identified as York Regional Police [specified file number]. This letter relates to the York Regional Police investigation of the tendering process at the [municipality].