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This constitutes my Final Order disposing of the outstanding issues as referred to in Interim Order 152.
BACKGROUND:
The requester was injured by a car which hit him while he was waiting at a bus stop. The requester began a court action against the driver of the car. In preparation for the court action, the driver's lawyer retained a private investigation firm to acquire information about the requester. Staff of the private investigation firm contacted a number of people to obtain information about the requester. This information was provided to the driver's lawyer. Eventually, the requester agreed to settle the court action.
The requester became aware that a private investigation firm had been hired by the driver's lawyer. The requester was concerned that the private investigation firm had acted inappropriately and lodged a complaint against the firm with the Ministry of the Solicitor General (the "institution"). The institution is responsible for overseeing the activities of private investigators by authority of the Private Investigators and Security Guards Act. At the conclusion of its investigation, the institution determined that the private investigation firm had not acted inappropriately.
The requester wrote to the institution requesting access to copies of the investigation documents compiled by the staff of the institution as a result of his complaint of inappropriate conduct on the part of the private investigation firm.
The institution wrote to the requester advising him that partial access would be granted to the requested record, and relied on a confidentiality provision contained in section 18 of the Private Investigators and Security Guards Act, to withhold the remainder of the requested record.
The requester wrote to former Commissioner Sidney B. Linden appealing the decision of the institution.
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