Investigation Report: FIPPA Refused Access – City of Winnipeg – Community Services Department
investigations & monitoring
fippa
Summary
City of Winnipeg – Community Services Department; refused access to all email correspondence between a city official and members of the city’s legal services department on the basis that the information requested was subject to solicitor-client privilege; provision 27(1)(a); ombudsman found that the city’s decision to refuse access was in accordance with the provisions of FIPPA.
Case 2014-0159