PO-4643

Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act), the appellant asked the Ministry of the Solicitor General for Ontario Provincial Police records relating to allegations he made that a hospital technician had sexually assaulted him. The appeal arises because the appellant objects to the ministry’s decision to withhold the technician’s last name and her home address and telephone number from the records it disclosed to him. In this order, the adjudicator upholds the ministry’s claim of section 49(b) (personal privacy) of the Act to withhold this information from the appellant. Although this information is contained in records of the appellant’s own personal information (i.e., records to which the appellant has a greater right of access under the Act), disclosing the technician’s personal information in these circumstances would be an unjustified invasion of her personal privacy. The adjudicator dismisses the appeal.