Investigation Report: FIPPA Refused Access – City of Winnipeg – Planning, Property and Development
investigations & monitoring
fippa
Summary
City of Winnipeg – Planning, Property and Development; refusal of access to two documents – one on the basis that it was publicly available and the other on the basis that it could reveal a draft of a resolution, by-law or other legal instrument by which the local public body acts; provision 22(1)(a); the city provided the complainant with information for locating the first document online; with respect to the second document, the ombudsman found that the city had not established the application of the cited exception to the information withheld from the complainant. The city issued a revised access decision and full access to the record was provided.
Case 2016-0250