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S-40.1 - Act respecting the Québec correctional system
Section 18.1
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18.1. The correctional services and a police force may exchange any information, including personal information, relating to a person committed to the custody of the correctional services, without the consent of the person concerned, if
(1) the information is necessary for the care of a person committed to the custody of the correctional services or for the administration of the person’s sentence;
(2) the information is necessary for the prevention, detection or repression of crime or statutory offences;
(3) there are reasonable grounds to believe that the security of persons or places for which the correctional services are responsible or the security of members of its personnel is in danger; or
(4) there are reasonable grounds to believe that the person is likely to reoffend or to cause injury to another person or damage to property.
Despite the first paragraph, the correctional services may not communicate an inmate’s fingerprints, taken in accordance with section 18.0.1, to a police force unless the information is necessary to prosecute an offence under an Act applicable in Québec.
18.1. The correctional services and a police force may exchange any information, including personal information, relating to a person committed to the custody of the correctional services, without the consent of the person concerned, if
(1) the information is necessary for the care of a person committed to the custody of the correctional services or for the administration of the person’s sentence;
(2) the information is necessary for the prevention, detection or repression of crime or statutory offences;
(3) there are reasonable grounds to believe that the security of persons or places for which the correctional services are responsible or the security of members of its personnel is in danger; or
(4) there are reasonable grounds to believe that the person is likely to reoffend or to cause injury to another person or damage to property.
