PO-4411-F

The appellant made a request to the Ministry of the Solicitor General (the ministry) for access to high-level information about homicides involving intimate partners cleared by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) between 2015 and 2020. The ministry denied access to a chart containing the requested information prepared by the OPP on the basis of the mandatory personal privacy exemption in section 21(1) of the Act. The appellant raised the application of the public interest override in section 23. In this order, the adjudicator finds that disclosure of the information at issue would not constitute an unjustified invasion of personal privacy because it is desirable for subjecting the OPP to public scrutiny, and that the record is therefore not exempt under section 21(1). The adjudicator also finds that, even if the information were exempt, the public interest override would require its disclosure, and orders the ministry to disclose it to the appellant.