MO-1755

The City of Niagara Falls (the City) received a request under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to information relating to the burial of a named individual at a cemetery operated by the City. The City located a number of responsive records and, as they appeared to contain personal information, notified an individual (the affected person) whose rights may be affected by its disclosure under section 21 of the Act.

The affected person objected to the disclosure of the records to the original requesters. The City issued a decision letter to the affected person indicating that it had decided to disclose portions of five records to the original requesters. The affected person, now the appellant, appealed the City’s decision to disclose several additional portions of these five records on the basis that they contain personal information and that their disclosure would result in an unjustified invasion of personal privacy under section 14(1) of the Act. The original requesters also appealed the City’s decision to deny access to the undisclosed portions of the five identified records and raised a number of other issues. This appeal (MA-030331-1) will be disposed of in a separate decision.

• MFIPPA
• 14(1)
• 2(1)