Collection
Access to Information Orders
Date
File Numbers
PA22-00520
Adjudicators
Jennifer James
Decision Type
Order
Applicable Legislation
FIPPA - 2(1) personal information
FIPPA - 14(1)
FIPPA - 21(2)(f)
FIPPA - 49(a)
FIPPA - 49(b)
An individual asked the Ministry of the Solicitor General for video footage which he says shows him being attacked by another inmate while he was in a detention centre. The ministry denied access to the footage claiming that disclosure would be an unjustified invasion of another individual’s personal privacy (section 49(b)). The ministry also claimed that the footage qualified for exemption under various law enforcement exemptions (section 49(a), read with section 14(1)).
The adjudicator orders the ministry to disclose a redacted copy of one of four videos which contains images of the appellant and detention centre employees. The adjudicator upholds the ministry’s decision to withhold the remaining footage.