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Bill 115, Auto-Dialer Crime Alert Act, 2003

Colle, Mike

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Bill 115 2003

An Act to enhance

community safety and

crime prevention by supporting

existing auto-dialer crime alert programs

and encouraging the establishment of

new auto-dialer crime alert programs

in communities across Ontario

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Purpose

1. The purpose of this Act is to prevent crime

and enhance public safety and security in communities across Ontario.

Definition

2. In this Act,

"auto-dialer crime alert program" means a program that permits police

forces to use an automated voice or e-mail message system to transmit

telephone or e-mail messages relating to crime and public safety and security

to members of the community.

Duty of Minister

(1) The Minister of Public

Safety and Security shall take all measures necessary to support auto-dialer

crime alert programs presently operating in Ontario, to encourage their

expansion and to promote and support the development and use of such programs

throughout the province for the enhancement of public safety and

security.

Stakeholder committee

(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), the Minister shall

establish a stakeholder committee, made up of police and community

representatives appointed by the Minister, to provide advice regarding

auto-dialer crime alert programs, their establishment, operation and

management.

Community input

(3) The stakeholder committee shall seek the co-operation and

input of local municipalities, police service boards, private sector partners

and community crime prevention groups in developing and formulating advice

for the Minister.

Written advice

(4) Within six months of the coming into force of this Act, the

stakeholder committee shall provide for the Minister's consideration a

written report providing advice and recommendations regarding auto-dialer

crime alert programs, and the Minister shall consider the report and

recommendations.

Guidelines

(5) After considering the report and recommendations, the

Minister shall prepare and publish comprehensive guidelines with respect to

all aspects of auto-dialer crime alert programs, including their

establishment, operation and management, and make them available to

communities across the province.

Commencement

4. This Act comes into force on the day it receives

Royal Assent.

Short title

5. The

short title of this Act is the Auto-Dialer

Crime Alert Act, 2003 .

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Bill proposes measures to enhance and support auto-dialer crime alert

programs operating in Ontario communities and to encourage the establishment

and operation of such programs throughout the province. Auto-dialer crime

alert programs permit the transmission of voice and e-mail messages related

to criminal activity and public safety to members of the public who wish to

receive them. The Minister of Public Safety and Security shall seek advice

from a stakeholder committee set up for the purpose of preparing a report on

these programs. The stakeholder committee shall seek co-operation and input

from local municipalities, police service boards, private sector partners and

community crime prevention groups. The report and its recommendations are to

be made available to the Minister no later than six months after the coming

into force of the Bill. Based on the report, the Minister shall publish

guidelines relating to such programs and make them available to communities

across the province so that they may take them into account when considering

the establishment of such programs.

Date Bill stage Activity Committee

June 18, 2003

First Reading

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

June

18, 2003

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent :

Coming into force :Royal Assent.

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