Alberta government urged to regulate police record checks

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The growing use of police record checks has led provincial privacy officers and judges to warn that unsubstantiated allegations and mental-health incidents have been released to potential employers

. The release of such information has caused people to lose their jobs. In addition, some people have had their university admissions revoked or have been turned away at international borders.

The detective then instructed the employer to ask AB to get two types of police checks often used to screen employees. The officer knew those documents would uncover the youth conviction, as well as information from other incidents that did not lead to convictions. “Until Alberta has similar legislation, applicants are essentially held ransom to a police force’s mandated terms before information can be disclosed,” he wrote in the decision, issued on Aug. 1.Rules around police checks vary from province to province. Within some provinces, the guidelines differ between detachments.

“This is one of the more pressing civil-liberties issues across the country," said Mr. Paisana, who was part of a group within the Uniform Law Conference of Canada that called on provincial governments to legislate police checks.

 

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