Delete non-convicts records from police biometric database: Ontario rights watchdog

Among more than 100 recommendations to address allegations of anti-Black racism within the Toronto Police service (TPS), the Ontario Human Rights Commission suggests that photographs, fingerprints, and other biometric information should be removed from the TPS database of if the charges that warranted the collection of the data does not lead to a conviction.

Street checks, for instance, went unregulated before the start of 2017 and were intended to capture information from those the police had reason to suspect were …

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