Suicide Profiling
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Privacy watchdog drops case against Toronto police over attempted suicide infoOntario's privacy commissioner has stopped legal action against police over sharing attempted suicide-related information with the U.S.CanadaJul 12, 2016
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UPDATE: A victory against suicide profilingA Toronto woman who was denied access to the United States when border agents learned of a suicide attempt in her past, is pleased that this may no longer happen to Canadian travelers in the future.Aug 19, 2015
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Privacy of suicide attempts to be respectedPeople in Toronto with mental health issues who have non-criminal encounters with police, such as attempted suicide, will not have that information released to anyone asking for background checks, effective this week.May 29, 2015
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Suicide profiling at US border investigatedLois Kamenitz tells 16X9 she was told she couldn’t enter the U.S. until she submitted her full medical history to Homeland Security.Jul 9, 2014
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Cavoukian takes cops to court over suicide dataOntario’s privacy commissioner, Anne Cavoukian wants the police to stop the indiscriminate reporting of suicide attempts to a national police database.InvestigationsJun 5, 2014
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US border suicide profiling must stop: ReportFor years, US border officials have had the right to forbid entry into the United States to Canadians known to have attempted suicide. That’s happened to a number of traveling Canadians, including two Toronto women featured in a 16x9 investigation earlier this year.HealthApr 15, 2014
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