The federal government has tabled legislation that, if passed, would make changes to Canada's sex offender registry to specify which categories of sexual offenders have to be added to the national tracking system, while giving judges discretion to exempt those who do not pose a risk of reoffending.
The proposed changes to current law comes in response to an October 2022 ruling from the Supreme Court that deemed it unconstitutional to require automatic registration of all people convicted of sexual crimes and an overreach to require mandatory lifetime registration for individuals convicted of more than one sexual offence in the same case.
Requiring all other sexual offenders to register if they cannot demonstrate that they pose no risk to the community; and Requiring judges to ask if victims want to receive information about their case after sentencing, have their wishes entered into proceeding records, and facilitate that information-sharing through federal corrections agencies.
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