MO-4628

An individual made a request to the police under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for all records related to her. The police granted partial access to several records, withholding information about other individuals for the personal privacy reason (exemption) at section 38(b) and also claiming that the individual could not obtain certain records because the Act does not apply to them [section 52(3), the employment or labour relations exclusion].
In this order, the adjudicator finds that the information related to the police complaint is excluded from the Act as set out in section 52(3), and partially upholds the police’s decision for the rest of the information. He finds that most of the information is exempt from disclosure under section 38(b), but also finds that withholding some information that the appellant provided to the police would lead to an absurd result. He orders this information disclosed.