Collection
Access to Information Orders
Date
File Numbers
MA22-00332
Adjudicators
Katherine Ball
Decision Type
Order
Applicable Legislation
MFIPPA - 2(1)
MFIPPA - 14(1)
MFIPPA - 14(2)
MFIPPA - 14(3)
MFIPPA - 38(b)
An individual asked the Municipality of Port Hope for access under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act to an email sent by a municipal councillor to the police. The municipality refused to release the email because it contains the requester’s and the councillor’s personal information and disclosing it would be an unjustified invasion of the councillor’s personal privacy (s 38(b)).
In this order, the adjudicator finds that the email contains the mixed personal information of the requester and the councillor, which is intertwined so that it cannot be separated. The adjudicator finds that the councillor’s personal information is exempt under section 38(b) and upholds the municipality’s decision.