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P-606
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (the Board) received a request pursuant to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to a "letter dated approximately July or August 1992 [by a named individual]" in which the requester was named. The Board responded that no such record existed. The requester appealed this decision.
During mediation, the Board conducted a further search and located the responsive record. The Board issued a new decision in which access to the letter was denied pursuant to section 21(1) of the Act. The appellant advised the Appeals Officer that she was limiting the scope of her request to those portions of the letter in which specific reference was made to her.
Mediation was not successful and notice that an inquiry was being conducted to review the decision of the Board was sent to the Board, the appellant, and the author of the letter (the affected person). In the Notice of Inquiry sent to the parties, the Appeals Officer solicited representations on the application of section 49(b) of the Act as the information at issue appeared to relate to both the appellant and other individuals.
Representations were received from the Board and the appellant. Accompanying the appellant's representations was a document signed by another individual (the other named individual) consenting to the disclosure to the appellant of any information contained in the record which related to her.
The record at issue consists of those portions of the letter in which reference is made to the appellant. The letter was provided to the Board by the affected person as his response to a Notice of Intended Discipline which he had received from the Board.
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. All Rights Reserved.