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COMPOL to COLA: Come Again
posted (May 22, 2014)
The Commissioner of Police has finally answered COLA. The activist group was requesting the Elvin Penner case file to prop up its faltering priavet prosecution. Faltering because they don't have any real evidence to back it up. Well the COMPOL wrote them two days ago saying they can't have a copy of the file. Why? Well, as he explains the Freedom of Information Act cannot be invoked for an investigation that is ongoing. COLA issued a release today saying, quote,

"at this point, it is not for the Commissioner to determine what is exempt or not." They urge him to return the file to the DPP so that she can share it with COLA.

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