2012 ACCESS and PRIVACY STATISTICS 1 Requests by the Public Under FIPPA/MFIPPA
TWO THOUSAND AND TWELVE ACCESS AND PRIVACY Table of Contents STATISTICS Requests by the Public 1 Provincial Compliance 3 Municipal Compliance 12 Appeals 26 Privacy Complaints 38 Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) 41 REQUESTS BY THE PUBLIC UNDER FIPPA/MFIPPA There were 52,831 freedom of information (FOI) requests filed across Ontario in 2012, about a 17% increase over 2011 where 45,159 requests were filed and once again breaking the previous record of 38,903, which was set in 2010. TOtaL FOI REQUESTS FILED BY JURISDICTION AND RECORDS TYPE Personal Information General Records Total Municipal 15,702 17,158 32,860 Provincial 5,813 14,158 19,971 Total 21,515 31,316 52,831 TOtaL FOI REQUESTS COMPLETED BY JURISDICTION AND RECORDS TYPE Personal Information General Records Total Municipal 15,690 16,869 32,559 Provincial 5,669 13,798 19,467 Total 21,359 30,667 52,026 TOtaL FOI REQUESTS COMPLETED BY SOURCE AND JURISDICTION Municipal Provincial Total Individual / Public 23,367 4,678 28,045 Business 7,052 12,695 19,747 Government (All Levels) 714 564 1,278 Media 611 492 1,103 Association / Group 374 436 810 Other 397 360 757 Academic / Researcher 44 242 286 Total 32,559 19,467 52,026 OUTCOME OF REQUESTS BY JURISDICTION* Municipal Provincial Total All information disclosed 9,377 5,002 14,379 Information disclosed in part 17,370 6,422 23,792 No information disclosed 4,503 6,238 10,741 Request withdrawn, abandoned or non-jurisdictional 1,582 1,830 3,412 Total 32,832 19,492 52,324 * Totals do not balance back to total requests completed because the counts in this table also include requests where no decision was issued due to the request being outside the institution’s jurisdiction.
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