Collection
Access to Information Orders
Date
File Numbers
PA24-00181
Adjudicators
Meganne Cameron
Decision Type
Order
Applicable Legislation
FIPPA - 10(1)(b)
FIPPA - 17(1)
In a request made under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, a law firm asked Ontario Health (OH), for records related to a COVID-19 outbreak at a long-term care home. OH issued a decision to grant access to the records. The long-term care home appealed OH’s decision and said that the mandatory exemption for third party information at section 17(1) of FIPPA applied to all of the information. The long-term care home also claimed that the law firm’s request was an abuse of process and said that it wanted to apply various discretionary exemptions that OH did not apply. In this decision, the adjudicator dismisses the affected party’s appeal and upholds OH’s access decision.