Michelle Wright

The applicant sought to reactivate and amend his human rights application against the Toronto Police Service following his acquittal on criminal charges.

The Tribunal granted the request to reactivate the application.

The Tribunal allowed amendments detailing the original allegations of discriminatory police treatment and an increased monetary claim, but denied proposed amendments regarding the applicant's experiences in detention and the conduct of Crown prosecutors, finding them outside the scope of the original application.

The complainants challenged the respondent's policy of disclosing mental health apprehensions on police reference checks.

In this interim decision, the Tribunal granted the complainants' request for a publication ban to anonymize their identities due to the highly personal nature of the information at issue.

The Tribunal also granted intervenor status to the Attorney General of Ontario to adduce expert evidence on the relevancy of such apprehensions to vulnerable sector checks.