Homicide victims names released on basis of “public good”: McGrogan
Alberta’s police chiefs have agreed in principal to new rules that could mean the names of homicide victims are withheld from the public.
Eleven Alberta chiefs adopted a framework at a meeting in Calgary that lays out how and when police forces name homicide victims in investigations based on advice from lawyers, senior police officers, Alberta’s solicitor generals department and the provincial privacy commissioner.
“There is just a lawful expectation of privacy even for deceased folks. That’s where you start,” Medicine Hat Police Chief Andy McGrogan, the president of the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police, said Wednesday. “There are steps that we take to get to naming homicide victims in certain circumstances.”