Barrie Police Service

He's also the author of Chilling Effects, Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age.

In his remarks, Jonathan highlighted a few of the new projects in this year's Transparency Showcase, including one by the Barrie Police Service.

Its Community Conversation Series leverages transparency, in an effort to build public trust by opening the police services doors and engaging citizens in two-way discussions about its use of technologies that are meant to serve them.

Here's Jonathan.

And here in Canada, many people learned only after the fact that that police services were employing Clearview AI's facial recognition tool.

That kind of discovery and lack of transparency is exactly what undermines trust.

Barrie police services have done exactly the opposite.

Before developing procedures for new technologies, the service invited residents to question experts, including experts prepared to ask whether police should use the tools at all.

Reported, the key word here, there may be many that are unreported.

Barrie Police Chief Rich Johnston shared his thoughts with Barrie 360's Julius Herne.

How do you view the, the recent rise in, um, the antisemitic or hate-motivated events? 'Cause it seems like we're seeing something in the news like every, you know, maybe only once every week, week and a half.

It's disappointing.

Again, I, I'll reflect back to the, the comment then that it's sad that it's necessary, but it's necessary.

We are seeing a global scale, uh, the rise of tensions across, uh, for different reasons, uh, but it's just sad that we have to do this, but it, it was necessary and the inspector general determined that, and we are certainly on board with that.

Uh, which of the-- There, there are seven recommended actions in that notice, so which one for you required the most attention here at Barrie Police?

So I wanna make all are important.

I'm Ian McLennan with your evening kickstart from Barrie 360.

Saying the current approach is not working, the Barrie Police Services Board is backing involuntary addiction treatment, saying officers are repeatedly dealing with people with severe addictions and complex needs without enough tools to break the cycle.

The board says it supports Premier Doug Ford's recent comments about moving toward treatment for people who are unwilling or unable to seek help themselves.

The board says any new approach would need enough resources to provide meaningful long-term change.

The switcheroo to fool the fuzz failed.

Barrie Police allege a suspended driver switched seats with his passenger during a traffic stop on Friday evening.

Officers say they saw a car using the shoulder of Dunlop Street West to get around slow-moving traffic.

When they stopped it on Hart Drive, police alleged the driver moved into the back seat and the passenger got behind the wheel.

Good morning, I'm Julius Hearn with your daily kickstart from Barrie 360.

Barrie Police says it's recorded an average of five hate-motivated incidents a year over the past five years, but the chief says that likely doesn't capture the full extent of hate-related incidents in the city.

Chief Rich Johnston says some incidents go unreported, while some others involving racial slurs don't meet the legal threshold for a criminal charge.

In a report to the Services Board this week, police say they are improving on how they tracked such incidents and have created a Strategic Intelligence Response Unit to identify potential patterns.