PO-4496

The Ministry of the Solicitor General (the ministry) received a request for records relating to a specified incident attended by the OPP. The requester, a township, clarified that it was seeking records sufficient to answer questions into the circumstances of an affected party’s possible attendance at the incident. The ministry identified responsive records and denied access to them citing the exemption in section 21(1) (personal privacy) of the Act. For some of the records, it identified the exemption in section 14(1) (law enforcement), in the alternative. The requester appealed the ministry’s decision. In this order, the adjudicator upholds the ministry’s decision in part. She finds that, except for information about the OPP officers and other information that does not qualify as personal information, the records are exempt under the personal privacy exemption in section 21(1) and, in respect of police codes that appear in the records, under the law enforcement exemption in section 14(1). The adjudicator orders the ministry to disclose identifying information of three individuals that she finds does not qualify as personal information.