Price and Department of Police

Price and Queensland Police Service
(1997 S0032, 28 October 2002) 

The applicant sought access to all documents of the respondent relating to himself or his property, including documents created in relation to his prior FOI access applications. The principles established in Shepherd and Department of Housing, Local Government & Planning (1994) 1 QAR 464 were applied in dealing with the 'sufficiency of search' issues raised by the applicant.  Applying s.77(1) of the FOI Act, AC Shoyer refused to deal further with documents clearly excluded from the application of Part 3 of the FOI Act by s.12 of the FOI Act, or with documents that had been dealt with in previous decisions of the Information Commissioner or his delegates. 

AC Shoyer applied the principles established in Godwin and Queensland Police Service (1997) 4 QAR 70 in finding that the applicant should be given access to sufficient information to enable him to understand why the respondent had decided to take no action against alleged offenders in matters in which the applicant was the complainant, but that other information, including identifying information in respect of witnesses, was exempt matter under s.44(1), s.42(1)(b) or s.46(1)(b) of the FOI Act.