1 September 2026 · City of Ottawa, Access to Information and Privacy Office · file AGR-2026-00759
A closed file, reopened in twenty-seven hours
On 31 August the office wrote that the files were closed and that it would not respond to further enquiry. An appeal went to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario the next morning. Twenty-seven hours after the closure letter, the same officer signed a new decision granting access in part and waiving the fees.
Nothing new was put in front of them in between. No new document, no new provision. What changed was who else was now reading the correspondence.