Suicide Profiling

• Privacy watchdog drops case against Toronto police over attempted suicide info

  Ontario's privacy commissioner has stopped legal action against police over sharing attempted suicide-related information with the U.S.

  Canada

  Jul 12, 2016
  
• UPDATE: A victory against suicide profiling

  A 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 respected

  People 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 investigated

  Lois 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
• Cavoukian takes cops to court over suicide data

  Ontario’s privacy commissioner, Anne Cavoukian wants the police to stop the indiscriminate reporting of suicide attempts to a national police database.

  Investigations

  Jun 5, 2014
• US border suicide profiling must stop: Report

  For 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.

  Health

  Apr 15, 2014