MO-4403

The appellant made a request to the Kingston Police Services Board (the police) for access to high-level information about homicides involving intimate partners cleared by the police between 2015 and 2020. The police created a list containing the requested information, but denied access to it on the basis of the mandatory personal privacy exemption in section 14(1) of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The appellant raised the application of the public interest override in section 16. In this order, the adjudicator finds that disclosure of the record would not constitute an unjustified invasion of personal privacy because it is desirable for subjecting the police to public scrutiny, and that the record is therefore not exempt under section 14(1). The adjudicator also finds that, even if the record were exempt, the public interest override would require its disclosure, and orders the police to disclose the record to the appellant.