FIPPA Request Responses

The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) provides for the legal right of access to records held by the City of Winnipeg and protects privacy and personal information by limiting the ways that the City can collect, use, and disseminate personal information. As part of its commitment to greater transparency and accountability, the City of Winnipeg publishes details of applications received for access to records under Part 2 of FIPPA. Responses to the applications are posted unless the application was for personal information, or was abandoned, withdrawn, or transferred. FIPPA sets out the exclusions and exceptions to disclosure, as well as the other statutes that prevail over FIPPA (https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/f175.php). When an exclusion, exception, or other statute is relied upon to refuse access, the response letter to the applicant includes the section number from the legislation (e.g. section 17 or s.17). The most commonly cited sections are as follows: s.5 Conflict with another act s.10 Access to records in electronic form s.12(1) Record does not exist or cannot be located s.12(2) Refuse to confirm or deny the existence of a record s.13…

Publisher

City of Winnipeg

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Updated

2026-09-07