PO-2133

The Ministry of Correctional Services, now the Ministry of Public Safety and Security (the Ministry), received a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for the following information:

Any investigation reports or reviews done by the Ontario Board of Parole or Probation and Parole Services regarding the case of [a named offender].

The Ontario Parole and Earned Release Board (formerly the Ontario Board of Parole) (the OPERB) is an adjudicative agency with independent decision-making authority for parole decisions and unescorted temporary absence decisions of 72 hours or longer for adult inmates serving sentences in provincial correctional institutions.

The Ministry identified 3 responsive records, and denied access to all of them, in their entirety, based on the exemptions in sections 14(2)(d) (law enforcement) and 21(personal privacy) of the Act. The Ministry relied on the factors and presumptions in sections 21(2)(h), 21(3)(a), (b), (d) and (g) in support of the section 21 exemption claim.

The requester (now the appellant) appealed the Ministry's decision.

• FIPPA
• 2(1)