C-642
Second Session, Forty-first Parliament,
62-63 Elizabeth II, 2013-2014
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-642
An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (high profile offender)
first reading, December 4, 2014
Mr. Weston (Saint John)
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to require the Correctional Service of Canada, in certain circumstances, to disclose particulars of the statutory release of a high profile offender by posting those particulars on the Service's website and to provide a written notice of the disclosure of the information to the victim. The enactment also provides for community consultation relating to the proposed release.
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2nd Session, 41st Parliament,
62-63 Elizabeth II, 2013-2014
house of commons of canada
BILL C-642
An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (high profile offender)
1992, c. 20
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1. The Corrections and Conditional Release Act is amended by adding the following after section 25:
High profile offender
25.1 (1) Before the statutory release of an inmate who is a high profile offender, the Service shall, if the Commissioner is of the opinion that the disclosure would not have a negative impact on the safety of the public,
(a) post on the Service’s website the following:
(i) the offender’s name and a recent photograph of the offender,
(ii) the offender’s previous convictions,
(iii) the date of the release,
(iv) the destination of the offender, and
(v) any of the conditions attached to the statutory release; and
(b) provide written notice to the victim of the disclosure of the information in paragraph (a).
Community consultations
(2) Before the statutory release of an inmate who is a high profile offender, the Service shall
(a) provide notice of the proposed release to the community in which the inmate is to be released, including the information set out in paragraph (1)(a);
(b) hold public consultations with representatives of the community, including the local police authority; and
(c) take into account, in preparing to release the inmate, the views of the community as well as the purpose and principles set out in sections 3 to 4.
Definition of “high profile offender”
(3) For the purposes of this section, an offender is a high profile offender if he or she has committed an offence that is set out in Schedule I and if the Commissioner determines that the offence dynamics have elicited, or have the potential to elicit, a community reaction in the form of significant public or media interest.
2. Schedule I to the Act is amended by replacing the references after the heading “SCHEDULE I” with the following:
(Subsections 25.1(3), 107(1), 129(1) and (2), 130(3) and (4), 133(4.1) and
156(3))
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
