In December 2018, Pivot Legal Society published their comprehensive study, “Project Inclusion: Confronting Anti-Homeless and Anti-Substance User Stigma in British Columbia.” The report examines the ways in which specific laws and policies in policing, health care and the court system directly undermine the health and safety of people who are homeless and living with substance use issues by trapping them in a cycle of criminalization.
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How court-imposed conditions set people up to fail
Relevant policing stakeholders must update database systems, e.g. PRIME-BC, to:
Recommendation 21: Require that all police-imposed conditions are electronically registered, including:- the date of imposition;
- the date or causal mechanism by which the condition will expire;
- the specific content of the condition; and
- the underlying reason for imposing the condition.
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How court-imposed conditions set people up to fail
Relevant policing stakeholders must update database systems, e.g. PRIME-BC, to:
Recommendation 22: Ensure that PRIME-BC can be searched to track all police-imposed conditions in the aggregate, rather than only being tied to an individual’s file.-
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