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Supreme Court of Canada: <\/b>In the instant case a disclosure was sought from the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services regarding the number of offenders registered under its sex offender registry residing within the areas designated by the first three digits of Ontario’s postal codes. The said information is kept confidential by the Ministry and police and the Ministry refused to disclose the same under law enforcement and personal privacy exemptions contained in the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. <\/i>However the Information and Privacy Commissioner ordered disclosure while holding that the exemptions do not apply.<\/p>\n

The Court while upholding the Commissioner’s view said that the applicable standard of review being reasonableness, the Commissioner has made no reviewable error in ordering the disclosure. The said registry being governed and maintained under <\/span>Christopher’s Law (Sex Offender Registry), 2000, <\/i>the Commissioner interpreted its provisions reasonably so as to determine whether it contained a confidentiality provision which covered the <\/span>Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. <\/i>Discussing Sections 14(1)(e) and (1); and 67(2) of the <\/span>Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act <\/i>as well as Sections 10 and 13 of <\/span>Christopher’s Law ; <\/i>the Court held that there is no difference between \u201creasonable expectation of probable harm\u201d and a \u201creasonable basis for believing that harm will occur\u201d. The \u201creasonable expectation of probable harm\u201d should show that disclosure will result in a risk of harm that is well beyond the merely possible or speculative, but also it need not prove on the balance of probabilities that disclosure will in fact result in such harm. Hence, the Commissioner reasonably concluded that the Ministry did not prove that the Record could be used to identify sex offenders or that it will ignite among sex offenders a fear of being identified that will lead to lower compliance rates with <\/span>Christopher’s Law<\/i>. <\/span>Ontario (Community Safety and Correctional Services) v. Ontario (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2014 SCC 31, decided on 24 April, 2014<\/i><\/p>\n

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