Ontario to ban name changes for sex offenders, solicitor general says

Ontario plans to prohibition registered enactment offenders from changing their names.

Solicitor General Michael Kerzner says those who are connected the provincial enactment offender registry volition nary longer beryllium allowed to legally alteration their sanction erstwhile caller authorities is passed.

Kerzner says his government’s planned changes to Christopher’s Law would besides necessitate registered enactment offenders to disclose their email and social-media accounts, and study immoderate changes to their usernames.

Offenders would besides look stricter question rules, including a request to study caller passports oregon driver’s licences.

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Christopher’s Law is named for 11-year-old Christopher Stephenson, who was murdered by a convicted enactment offender connected Father’s Day successful 1998.

His father, Jim Stephenson, says the changes volition assistance constabulary lick enactment crimes and support susceptible children.