Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 8 April 2024. 90 (a) provides a general outline of the structure or programs of a law enforcement agency; or (b) reports, by means of statistical analysis or otherwise, on the degree of success achieved in a law enforcement program. Subsection 15(1)(m) of FOIP is a discretionary class-based exemption. It permits refusal of access in situations where release of a record could reveal the security arrangements of particular vehicles, buildings or other structures or systems, including computer or communication systems, or methods employed to protect those vehicles, buildings, structures or systems. Including means that the list of information that follows is not complete (non-exhaustive). The examples in the provision are the type of information that could be presumed to qualify as “security arrangements”.339 The following two-part test can be applied. However, only one of the questions needs to be answered in the affirmative for the exemption to apply. There may be circumstances where both questions apply and can be answered in the affirmative: 1. Could release reveal security arrangements (of particular vehicles, buildings, other structures, or systems)? Section 15 of FOIP uses the word could versus “could reasonably be expected to” as seen in other provisions of FOIP. The threshold for could is somewhat lower than a reasonable expectation. The requirement for could is simply that the release of the information could have the specified result. There would still have to be a basis for the assertion. If it is fanciful or exceedingly remote, the exemption should not be invoked.340 For this provision to apply there must be objective grounds for believing that disclosing the information could reveal security arrangements of particular vehicles, buildings, other structures, or systems. Reveal means to make known; cause or allow to be seen.341 Security means a state of safety or physical integrity. The security of a building includes the safety of its inhabitants or occupants when they are present in it. Examples of information 339 British Columbia Government Services, FOIPPA Policy and Procedures Manual at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/services-for-government/policiesprocedures/foippa-manual/cabinet-local-public-body-confidences. Accessed June 26, 2019. Definition of “including” as included in SK OIPC Guide to FOIP, Chapter 4 – Exemptions from the Right of Access, for subsections 16(1), 17(1)(g), 22(a) and 24(1) of FOIP. 340 SK OIPC Review Reports LA-2007-001 at [117], LA-2013-001 at [35], F-2014-001 at [149]. 341 Pearsall, Judy, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Ed., (Oxford University Press) at p. 1224.
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