The appellant made a request under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act to The Greater/Grand Sudbury Police Services Board for access to police reports about his son’s death from a suspected drug overdose.
The police granted the appellant access to portions of the reports but refused to disclose certain information because disclosure would be an unjustified invasion of personal privacy under the mandatory personal privacy exemption at section 14(1).
In this order, the adjudicator finds that there are compassionate reasons to disclose some of the deceased’s personal information to his father (section 14(4)(c)) and orders the police to disclose that information. She upholds the police’s decision to withhold the remaining information under the personal privacy exemption at section 14(1).