PO-2191

The Ministry of the Solicitor General, 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 transcripts of all telephone calls (the 911 calls) about an identified vehicle made on June 24, 2000 to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Communications Centre in North Bay and relayed to the Burk's Falls OPP Detachment. The request, which was made late in 2001, also identified the exact times that two specific calls were made. The requester was the driver of the vehicle that was involved in an accident (the incident), and the calls were placed as a result of this incident.

The Ministry contacted the requester and advised him that copies of audiotapes of the identified telephone calls are retained for 45 days and then destroyed. The requester accepted the Ministry's explanation, and clarified that he wished to obtain a copy of the occurrence reports which resulted from the investigation of the incident.

The Ministry denied access to the responsive occurrence reports on the basis that the matter was before the Courts, and also claimed that the records qualified for a number of identified exemptions under the Act.

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

• FIPPA
• 21(3)(b)
• 49(b)
• 2(1)

• address
• identifiable individual