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This is pretty defensive and confusing. Maybe police information checks are a revenue stream. Consent to get someone’s record is being conflated with what is

• _nqfy 3y ago
  To make this clearer, the comment I was replying to says, "If someone is arrested and charged, that record is publicly accessible to anyone for a few dollars. If the charges go nowhere, the record of the arrest and charge remains on the public record forever." But neither statement is true upon a search. Separately, Barker's quote in the article asserts that in Canada, there is a single criminal record check available for a person, and that "is not a record of conviction, it’s a record of charges." The reality is that there are several types of background checks, and the base level lists a record of convictions while omitting charges—though in any case, Barker is clearly an innocent person who should have the incident dropped from a check at any level.
  • j45 3y ago
    Ah, I see, thanks for clarifying what you meant Does that mean a police information check is the only way to search for charges against a person? Charges are usually registered with courts too, and those courts are usually searchable as public record I’m assuming.