PO-1682

The Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services (the Ministry) received a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to the following information concerning the Centre for Forensic Sciences (the CFS):

1. Methods Manual for Chemistry
2. Intoxilyzer 5000C Training Manual
3. Documents/Photo Section Policies and Procedures for Handling and Preserving Evidence
4. Gas Chromatography Methods Manual
5. Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy Methods Manual
6. Procedures for Handling and Preserving Evidence
7. Procedures on Case Records
8. Quality Assurance Manual-Toxicology

The Ministry made an interim decision granting partial access to the records, and provided a fee estimate of $132.20. The fees consisted of photocopying charges of $117.20 and search fees of $15. The Ministry denied the requester's subsequent request for a fee waiver.

The requester (hereafter the appellant) appealed the Ministry's decision and Appeal No. P-9800085 was opened. During the mediation stage of that appeal, the appellant narrowed the scope of his appeal to the $15 search fee charged by the Ministry and the denial of the fee waiver.

Former Adjudicator Mumtaz Jiwan issued Order P-1592 in which she upheld the $15 search fee and the Ministry's decision not to waive the fee.

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• FIPPA
• 14(1)(i)
• 14(1)(l)
• 2(1) personal information (f)
• 21(1)
• 21(1)(f)
• 33(1)(b)
• 33(2)
• 35(1)
• 35(2)
• 57(1)
• 33(1)
• 34(1)

• Availability of Institution Documents