An institution submitted an application seeking the Information Commissioner’s approval to decline to act on 597 access requests under subsection 6.1(1) of the Access to Information Act. In the institution’s opinion, the requests are an abuse of the right to make a request and vexatious.

The Commissioner finds that the institution established that 550 of the 597 access requests are an abuse of the right to make a request. The circumstances warrant that she provides her approval to the institution to decline to act on these access requests. She is not providing her approval for the 47 remaining access requests. The institution did not show they are vexatious or that they are an abuse of the right to make a request.

The application is partially granted.