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| BC Civil Liberties Association Update September 2009 | |||
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Library Agrees to Re-Examine Decision Barring Suicide DiscussionFollowing a presentation from the BCCLA, the Vancouver Public Library board has agreed to revisit a decision by VPL management to bar the right to die group Exit International from presenting in library meeting rooms.
BCCLA Uncovers Plan to Turn Homeless Shelters Into JailsThe BCCLA uncovered four documents that suggested that the provincial government was in the final stages of preparing legislation to compel the homeless to remain in homeless shelters during the 2010 Olympics. Read more about how homeless people could be jailed >> Legal Observer Teams Trained to Hit the Streets in 2010
If the BCCLA and Pivot get their way, more than 100 pairs of eyeballs will be on the streets of Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics watching for rights violations by the more than 7,000 police officers, 5,000 private security guards and 4,500 members of the Canadian Armed Forces. Read more >>
Police Chiefs and BCCLA Agree That Police Accountability System Broken, Call on Solicitor General for ActionIn a surprising about-face, B.C.’s municipal police chiefs along with representatives from the RCMP joined in a press conference to declare that the current system for investigating criminal allegations against police officers, and in custody deaths, is broken and needs provincial intervention to restore public confidence in the police. | ||
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Shown at the BCCLA news conference are Russell Ogden and David Eby, BCCLA Executive Director. Philip Nitschke founder of Exit International spoke to the media via a Skype connection from Darwin, Australia.
