A federal appeal that could result in the incarceration records and parole hearing audio for convicted murderers Paul Bernardo, Craig Munro, and Clinton Gayle being made public is now underway.
The Toronto Police Association , on behalf of the families of Kristen French, Leslie Mahaffy, and Consts. Michael Sweet and Todd Baylis, is behind the appeal.
In the end, she ordered the French, Mahaffy, Sweet, and Baylis families to pay the government $4,000. “For many years, the Association has taken a formal position at the parole hearings of each of these offenders, including the submission of a complete Victim Impact brief,” said TPA President Jon Reid.
That request was denied, TPA said, on the grounds that making this information public infringed on the privacy rights of the offenders. Fifty-eight-year-old Bernardo is also currently serving life in prison for the June 1991 sexual assault and murder of then 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy as well as the sexual assault and murder of then 15-year-old Kristen French, whose body was found on April 30, 1992.
Neuberger went on to say that carving out an exception for these “highly protected” records to be made public, would essentially “rob individuals of their privacy rights” by setting “precedent for disclosing the records of other inmates or offenders that may pose less risk.”“And we have to remember that the parole hearings, they don't lose sight of the risk because the parole hearing is informed by the assessments that are done in the jail. And for example, Mr.