PO-1735

NATURE OF THE APPEAL:

The appellants submitted a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) to the Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services for access to a specific ambulance report concerning their deceased daughter. The Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services transferred the request to the Ministry of Health (now the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care) (the Ministry) under section 25(1) of the Act, since the record was determined to be in the Ministry's custody.

The Ministry denied access to the record pursuant to section 21(1) (unjustified invasion of personal privacy) of the Act. The Ministry also stated that disclosure of the record was presumed to be an unjustified invasion of the daughter's personal privacy under section 21(3)(a) (medical information).

The appellants appealed the Ministry's decision.

During the mediation stage of the appeal, the Ministry stated that it was also relying on the factor weighing against disclosure in section 21(2)(f) (highly sensitive information).

I sent a Notice of Inquiry setting out the issues in the appeal to the appellants and the Ministry. I received representations from both parties.

RECORD:

The record at issue is a two page Ambulance Call Report, a form with handwritten information filled out by an ambulance driver and an ambulance attendant. The record contains seven general sections described as follows:

1. Ambulance Administration
2. Patient Identification
3. Clinical Information
4. Hospital Administration
5. Remarks and/or procedures continued
6. Final Assessment by Crew
7. General Administration

• FIPPA
• 10(2)
• 21(1)(f)
• 21(2)(f)
• 21(3)(a)
• 2(1)

• person is deceased