The Toronto Police Services Board (the Police) received a request under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to a copy of the “police report” relating to the death of the appellant’s son.

The Police identified seven responsive records, consisting of a three-page “Sudden Death Report” and four pages of “Supplementary Reports”. The Police granted access to portions of four records that contain information about the requester and the identity of her son, and denied access to all remaining records and partial records. The basis for denying access was section 14(1) of the Act (invasion of privacy), and the Police relied on the “presumed unjustified invasion of personal privacy” in sections 14(3)(a) and (b) in support of the section 14(1) exemption claim.

The requester, now the appellant, appealed this decision.