Human rights groups concerned over Guelph police’s use of COVID-19 database Between April and July, police services in Ontario had access to the names, birth dates and addresses of people who had COVID-19 under the province’s Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act.Guelph police accessed this database 4,057 times.
The access raised flags by a group of human rights organizations given that the service had the sixth-highest number of searches of the database out of all the other police services in Ontario.A letter from the Aboriginal Legal Services, the Black Legal Action Centre, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario was sent to the Guelph Police Services Board demanding answers to a number.