C-209
First Session, Forty-second Parliament,
64 Elizabeth II, 2015
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-209
An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (high-profile offenders)
first reading, December 10, 2015
Mr. Doherty
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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 details of the statutory release of a high-profile offender by posting them on its 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 offender's release.
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1st Session, 42nd Parliament,
64 Elizabeth II, 2015
house of commons of canada
BILL C-209
An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (high-profile offenders)
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 its 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 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 they have committed an offence that is set out in Schedule I and if the Commissioner determines that the nature and circumstances of the offence 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
