The Ontario government is providing details on the Missing Persons Act. Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli says it’s an effort to give police more tools to find missing people.

“They can quickly and easily get a court order to help them get records on the person that’s missing. It can get a court order for entry to a premises that can assist them,” he says.

Fedeli says police will also be able to make an urgent demand for records without a court order in certain circumstances.

He says the act sets out tests to obtain court authorization for access to records.

And Fedeli says it requires police and the courts to consider privacy issues and whether there is evidence that the person does not wish to be located.

Chief of Police Scott Tod says these will all help in finding someone.

“We’ll be able to identify whether or not a person has entered a business and there’s video of that. Have they used their credit card or other type of consumer card and what about their cell phone. Have they used it and is their a record,” Tod says.

The act was proclaimed into law on July 1st.

(photo by station staff)

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