Canada: Ontario will make sex offender registry available to other provinces.

February 11, 2002

TORONTO - Ontario says Ottawa is failing to protect children by refusing to set up a national sex offender registry and include more criminals in a DNA database.

Ontario set up its own sex offender registry, with names, pictures and addresses. However, it says what is really needed is a national registry.

Solicitor General David Turnbull says Ontario will give the registry software to Alberta at a justice ministers' meeting in Moncton this week.

It will offer it to all Canadian governments free of charge.



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Source: © 2002 CBC News