P-507

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (the OHRC) received a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to the investigation file of a complaint, identified by its file number. The requester is the solicitor for the city which is the respondent in the human rights complaint. The OHRC denied access to the records pursuant to sections 14(1)(a) and (b) of the Act. The requester appealed the denial of access. Subsequent to the appeal, the OHRC added sections 14(2)(a), 21 and 13(1) to the exemptions previously claimed.

During the processing of the appeal, the OHRC was willing to disclose correspondence between the appellant and the OHRC; however, the appellant indicated that he was not interested in receiving this information as it was already in his possession.

The records at issue in this appeal consist of two record groups, as identified by the OHRC:

1. Record of Intake with attachments (pages 1 to 186);

2. Record of Investigation with attachments (pages 187 to 279).

Mediation was not successful and notice that an inquiry was being conducted to review the decision of the OHRC was sent to the appellant and the OHRC. Representations were received from both parties.

• FIPPA
• 14(1)(a)
• 14(1)(b)
• 2(1) law enforcement

• intake record
• investigation record