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The Ministry of Correctional Services (the Ministry) received a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to copies of all correspondence in the custody and control of the Ministry, relating to any allegation of wrong doing, discipline, character and behaviour of the requester.
The requester was provided with access to parts of the responsive record, and access to the remaining parts was denied, in whole or in part, pursuant to sections 49(a), 49(b), 14(1)(f) and 20 of the Act. The requester appealed the Ministry's decision.
The record was divided into five distinct groups, which represent the five areas within the Ministry where the various parts of the record were located.
During the course of mediation, the scope of the appeal was narrowed, on the agreement of the appellant, to the following pages in two groups of the record:
Group 1 - Pages 24-28, 45-46 and 49-53
Group 2 - Pages 1, 16-18, 62-79, 119 and 122-126.
The severances contained on pages 62 and 28 of the record do not contain information which is responsive to the appellant's request, and I find that these parts of the record fall outside the scope of this appeal and should not be released to the appellant.
Further attempts to settle the appeal through mediation were not successful, and notice that an inquiry was being conducted to review the Ministry's decision was sent to the appellant, the Ministry and nine individuals whose personal information appeared to be contained in the record (the affected persons). Written representations were received from the Ministry, the appellant and six of the affected persons. In his representations, the appellant excludes any personal identifiers of individuals other than himself from the scope of the appeal.
For the purposes of this order, each of the affected persons has been assigned a number, and each individual will be advised of the number which applies to them in the covering letter which accompanies their copy of the order.
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