 
Police Board Won't Apologize to Guelph Strip-Search Seven Having won every courtroom battle for the "Guelph Strip-search Seven," CCLA called upon the newly appointed Guelph Police Services Board to apologize for the actions of its predecessor Board. In November of 1997, Guelph police arrested 7 women for their part in a demonstration against an Ontario education bill. Instead of simply holding these women at the local station, the Guelph police transferred them to the Wellington Detention Centre where each of them was subjected to a strip-search. In mid-February of 1998, CCLA went to bat for these women, appearing at the Board and Guelph City Council, and petitioning OCCPS and going both to the Ontario Divisional Court and then the Ontario Court of Appeal. Although the complaints process had dismissed the cases, CCLA action produced a court order for the complaints to be heard on their merits. By the time this happened, it was 2004 and the most implicated police officers had already retired from the force. In September of 2004, CCLA's Alan Borovoy and Stephen McCammon appeared before a meeting of the newly appointed Board and asked that it apologize to the women for the way the police authorities had handled their complaints. The Board refused. | CCLA In The Schools | Join Us | Feedback | Search | Other Interesting Sites | Home |
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