MO-4635

The City of Ottawa received a request for emails relating to two specific properties from its Planning department and Building Code and Bylaw Services, including complaints. The city located records and withheld some information claiming it should not be disclosed because it contained other individual’s personal information (sections 14(1) and 38(b)) and other information either because it contained advice and recommendations (section 7(1)) or solicitor-client privileged information (section 12). The requester appealed the city’s exemption claims and also claimed that further responsive records exist.
In this order, the adjudicator upholds the city’s decision but finds that some of the information it claimed was personal is actually professional information and orders the city to disclose that information. The adjudicator also finds that the city’s search for responsive records was reasonable.