Alberta’s police watchdog is under-resourced and at a “critical breaking point,” executive director Susan Hughson told the Edmonton Police Commission Thursday.
Alberta’s police watchdog is investigating a series of potentially unauthorized database searches by Lethbridge police officers of NDP MLA Shannon Phillips’…
CALGARY The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) has launched an investigation into potentially unauthorized uses of police databases by members of the Lethbridge Police Service. Officials were notified Feb. 1 that the results of a Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) request had revealed a number of potentially unauthorized searches of the name and related files of an individual. The searches were done between January 2018 and November 2018. ASIRT’s investigation will examine the instances where the databases were accessed, and seek to determine whether these activities were conducted for a lawful purpose, read a release. Lethbridge-West MLA Shannon Phillips has confirmed to CTV News she was the subject of the searches.