Collection
Access to Information Orders
Date
File Numbers
PA21-00618
Adjudicators
Anna Truong
Decision Type
Order
Applicable Legislation
FIPPA - 2(1) personal information
FIPPA - 21(1)
FIPPA - 21(2)(f)
FIPPA - 21(3)(b)
FIPPA - 21(4)(d)
Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, an individual requested access to a specified fire investigation report about the fire that killed his brother. The ministry issued a decision withholding information in the fire report under the mandatory personal privacy exemption at section 21(1) of the Act.
In this order, the adjudicator partially upholds the ministry’s decision, finding that the personal privacy exemption applies to some information in the fire report but the compassionate reasons exception (section 21(4)(d)) applies to permit the ministry to disclose some of the information it withheld. She orders the ministry to disclose the additional information to the appellant.