Break a window, and pay for life [View all]

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/07/04/break_a_window_and_pay_for_life.html#


Thousands of Canadians who were never convicted of crime have their names in massive police databases, hampering job prospects, travel.


Robert Rotenberg, the Toronto criminal lawyer who represented King in his mischief charge, calls his client’s case, “laughably beyond outrageous.”

“We have a young man capable of doing extraordinary things in his life. Instead of embracing him and opening up opportunities, we’re sending him into this Kafkaesque bureaucracy.”

Currently, there are no firm rules about what records police can and cannot disclose in background checks. Discretion is left to individual forces and practices vary across the province.