Fees
General Information Requests
A request for information about another individual, a government program or activity are considered general information requests. The following fees apply to requests for general information:
- Application Fee: $5.00 must accompany application
- Time spent manually searching for records: $7.50 per ¼ hour
- Records Preparation: $7.50 per ¼ hour required to prepare records for disclosure
- Photocopying and Computer Printouts: $0.20 per page (requester's copy only)
- Floppy/Hard Disk: $10.00 for each disk
- Computer Programming: $15.00 per ¼ hour if necessary to develop a computer program to retrieve information
- The costs, including computer costs, that the City incurs in locating, retrieving, processing and copying the record if those costs are specific in an invoice that the City has received
- Appeal Fee: $25.00 to be paid to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) if an appeal is filed
Personal Information Requests
A request for information about oneself is considered a personal information request. The following fees apply to requests for personal information:
- Application Fee: $5.00 must accompany application
- Photocopying and Computer Printouts: $0.20 per page
- Floppy/Hard Disks: $10.00 for each disk
- Computer Programming: $15.00 per ¼ hour if necessary to develop a computer program to retrieve information
- The costs, including computer costs, that the City incurs in locating, retrieving, processing and copying the record if those costs are specific in an invoice that the City has received
- Appeal Fee: $10.00 to be paid to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) if an appeal is filed