Special Reports

Crossing the Line: The Indiscriminate Disclosure of Attempted Suicide Information to U.S. Border Officials via CPIC

June 5, 2014: IPC Notice of Application for Judicial Review to the Toronto Police Service

Reviewing the Licensing Automation System of the Ministry of Natural Resources: A Special Investigation Report [PC12-39]

Report on concerns raised by an MPP about the privacy and security of personal information that is currently being stored in the U.S. as part of the Licensing Automation System (LAS) database of the Ministry of Natural Resources (the min...

Deleting Accountability: Record Management Practices of Political Staff – A Special Investigation Report

Investigation into the allegation that there had been an inappropriate deletion of all emails related to the cancellation and relocation of the gas plants by political staff in the former Minister of Energy’s Office. Based on informati...

Addendum to Deleting Accountability: Records Management Practices of Political Staff – A Special Investigation Report

This is the Addendum to the Special Investigation Report,  Deleting Accountability: Records Management Practices of Political Staff. In that Report, the IPC made findings critical of the email management practices of political staff tha...

Report into Contentious Issues Management in the Ministry of Finance

Report on allegations of political interference in two FOI requests. The allegations were made by members of the Opposition Party and they related to actions taken by a Legislative Assistant in the office of the Minister of Finance. Find...

Elections Ontario’s Unprecedented Privacy Breach: A Special Investigation Report

Investigation into the loss of two USB keys containing unencrypted personal information that were used by the Strike-off Project of Elections Ontario (EO). Findings: EO failed to put in place reasonable measures to protect the physical s...

Investigation into Records Management Practices at TO2015

Full report on the Commissioner’s investigation into the records management practices of the Toronto Organizing Committee for the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games (TO2015).

Reviewing the Return Policies of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario – Privacy Investigation Report PC07-100

Reviewing the Return Policies of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario – Privacy Investigation Report PC07-100 and A Review of the Literature Relating to Fraudulent Returns: Practices Used by Retailers to Combat Fraud Collection, use...

Excessive Background Checks Conducted on Prospective Jurors: A Special Investigation Report Order PO-2826

Excessive Background Checks Conducted on Prospective Jurors: A Special Investigation Report Order PO-2826