June 21, 2021 Board of Police Commissioners (Special)

Agenda

In accordance with the July 29, 2020 direction of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing under section 14 of the Emergency Management Act, this meeting is being held virtually. Draft minutes of this meeting will be made available on halifax.ca within three business days.

1. CALL TO ORDER 

Mi’kmaq Land Acknowledgment

Presentation to Natalie Border, former Commissioner of the Board of Police Commissioners

2. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – April 19, 2021 and May 17, 2021

4. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS 

5. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES 
    
6. CALL FOR DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

7. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS

8. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
8.1 Correspondence 
8.2 Petitions 
8.3 Presentations
8.3.1 Presentation – How Policy Failures Lead to Privacy Abuses – Bryan Short on behalf of OpenMedia [PDF]

9. INFORMATION ITEMS BROUGHT FORWARD – NONE

10. REPORTS/DISCUSSION
10.1 STAFF 
10.1.1 HRM Wortley Report Recommendations – Update
• Preparation for Two Year Wortley Report Summary

10.1.2 Halifax Regional Police Information Technology Audit Report – Update [PDF]

10.2 MEMBERS OF BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS
10.2.1 Commissioner Smith – BOPC Sub-committee to Define Defunding Police

10.3 COMMISSIONER UPDATES
10.4 HALIFAX REGIONAL POLICE/ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE CHIEF UPDATES

11. ADDED ITEMS
11.1 Report from Halifax Regional Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the Process for
Investigating Hate Crimes 

12. ITEMS FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION 
    
13. IN CAMERA (In Private)  
The Board of Police Commissioners may rise and go into a private In Camera (In Private) session, in accordance with Section 51 of the Nova Scotia Police Act for the purposes of dealing with the following:

13.1 In Camera (In Private) Minutes – May 17, 2021
Motion: 
That the In Camera (In Private) minutes of May 17, 2021 (Special) be approved as circulated.

Private and Confidential Information Items

1. Private and Confidential In Camera (In Private) Information Report - re: Security Matter

14. NOTICES OF MOTION 

15. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – July 19, 2021 

16. ADJOURNMENT

INFORMATION ITEMS
1. Information report from the Legislative Assistant dated June 16, 2021 re: Presentation Requests. [PDF]