PO-4581-I

An individual made a request to the Ministry of the Solicitor General under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act for records of entities that have queried or accessed a specified OPP file. The ministry initially refused to confirm or deny the existence of the requested records (section 14(3)) but subsequently provided the requester with access to part of a record.
The requester believes that additional records regarding queries of and accesses to the OPP file ought to exist and challenged the reasonableness of the ministry’s search.
In this interim order, the adjudicator finds that the ministry has not provided sufficient evidence to demonstrate that reasonable efforts have been made to conduct a search for the records the appellant is seeking. The adjudicator orders the ministry to conduct a further search for records and to provide affidavit evidence explaining its searches.