Ontario Privacy Commissioner says Toronto police and other law enforcement agencies can use race-based use of force data to assess individual police officers
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has issued a statement to “clarify” comments made by Toronto's interim police chief last week as the service released new data that show Black and racialized residents face disproportionate use of force.said the data couldn't be used to investigate the actions of individual officers because the Anti-Racism Act and the privacy commissioner require them to be anonymized.
It says the laws are designed to “protect people's personal information rather than information that identifies an individual in a business, professional or official capacity.” At the time, the board said the data would not be used to identify specific officers or manage their performance, but to “identify trends that contribute to professional development and organizational change.”
The interim chief apologized to the city's Black and racialized residents last week as the statistics were published, saying the force needs to do better.
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