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On November 14, 1989, the requester submitted a request to the Ministry of the Solicitor General (the "institution") for access to a copy of an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) report relating to an investigation referred to in an OPP news release dated September 12, 1989.
The institution's Freedom of Information and Privacy Co-ordinator (the "Co-ordinator") advised the requester that the request might affect the interests of other individuals (the "affected parties") and therefore these individuals were being given the opportunity to make representations concerning disclosure of the record. The institution told the requester that it would make a decision by January 20, 1990 as to whether or not it would disclose the record.
The institution notified five affected parties on December 22, 1989 pursuant to section 28 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 1987 (the "Act"). The affected parties were given severed versions of the record.
Three of the affected parties responded to the institution's notification. One gave his consent to the release of the information; the other two requested that the information not be released.
On January 16, 1990, the Co-ordinator responded, under her own signature, to the requester. She advised him that the institution had decided to grant partial access to the record. As the affected parties had 30 days to appeal this decision, the requester was told that he would be contacted on or before February 16, 1990 to arrange for access.
The requester was not contacted by the institution by that date, nor did any of the affected parties appeal the institution's decision to grant partial access. Consequently, on February 19, 1990, the requester again wrote to the Co-ordinator asking when the institution intended to grant partial access.
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