PO-4502

The appellant submitted a request under the Act to the ministry for records relating to an ethics complaint he filed with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission (the AGCO). The AGCO granted the appellant partial access to the responsive records. The AGCO withheld some of the records under the solicitor-client privilege exemption in section 19 of the Act. The appellant appealed the AGCO’s decision and claimed additional responsive records ought to exist. In this decision, the adjudicator upholds the AGCO’s decision in part. She finds some of the records are exempt from disclosure under the solicitor-client privilege exemption but orders the AGCO to disclose the remainder to the appellant. The adjudicator upholds the AGCO’s search for responsive records as reasonable.