Birgit

You need to contact the authorities and deal with the warrant before we can proceed with either file. Please contact us once you are finished in court!

Good Luck,

Birgit

We are a small not-for-profit organization and, unfortunately, have to pick our battles. We have been directing our energy toward fighting Bill C10.

Birgit

Unfortunately, it is my understanding that the police never actually destroy anything. They will seal files so that the public cannot access them but they will not detroy them outright.

I completely agree that this is unfair for people who have been falsely accused.

Birgit

But they are not my “former actions”, they are my former arrests which were baseless and why the charges were dropped.

So if i’m simply arrested & falsely accused, then charges are dropped; it will hang over my head forever?

p.s: when you say files properly seeled with courts and police, so the police doesn’t destroy your file do they? they simply seal it?

When files are properly sealed with the courts and police, they can still be used against you if you re-offend (even pardoned files can be re-opened if a person gets arrested again).

File purges and destructions and requests to seal court records are essentially designed to prevent a person from being discriminated against by potential employers but they will not allow a person to re-offend without consideration of their former actions.

Regards,

Birgit

I was arrested twice in 1999 and 2004. Both cases were dropped.

On my first arrest in 1999 my lawyer requested the fingerprint be erased and my file destroyed, and at the quebec court he applied to seal my file so it doesn’t cause me prejudices.

In 2004, my 1999 arrest and charges were included in the file opened in 2004. If they were destroyed why they re-appeared?

same process was done for the second arrest in 2004 to destroy file and to seal the file at the court. But can anyone still see my previous arrests even if police said file destroyed and court sealed the file?

Thank you,