MO-4437

The Toronto Police Services Board (the police) received a freedom of information request under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act for records related to a fire that broke out at a certain location. The police issued an access decision advising that there is no video record responsive to the request. The requester challenged the reasonableness of the police’s search, in large part on the basis of evidence he believes the police should have collected at the time of the fire, as well as a past negative experience involving the same police service and a request for video evidence. In this order, the adjudicator upholds the police’s search for a video record responsive to the request as reasonable in the circumstances, and dismisses the appeal.