OTTAWA – A Liberal bill that adds victims’ input to the process for publication ban decisions and changes how the national sexual offender registry works has received royal assent.
The new law requires judges to ask prosecutors if they have sought a victim’s input when seeking a publication ban, and requires victims’ preferences about receiving information about their case after an offender’s sentencing to be entered into the record.
It also adds new entries to the list of offences that can result in someone being added to the registry, including the non-consensual sharing of intimate images and extortion.
The law also changes the criteria that require sexual offenders to be automatically added to the registry, in response to a Supreme Court decision last year.
Just to be clear: The Canadian registry is NOWHERE NEAR as invasive the registry in all American states and territories. In fact, it is the presence of Internet registries that DIRECTLY CORRELATE with legislation that creates residence and proximate location restrictions, as well as employment, educational, and corporate bans and restrictions. In short, it is nothing more than an expanded law enforcement eyes-only database.
What the hell is that? It should be the burden of the state to prove we’re dangerous. Not the other way around. This is so rigged.