The BCCLA’s lawyers have been successful in unsealing the secret “Information to Obtain” affidavit materials used to get a search warrant against a prominent RCMP critic in North Vancouver. The RCMP, using the search warrant for the alleged crime of “criminal defamation”, seized the home computers and cell phones of a North Vancouver man who allegedly had posted defamatory comments about an RCMP officer on the comment section of a blog, in a private e-mail, and to a Twitter account with 13 followers.

The BCCLA will be receiving the unvetted ITO late today or early tomorrow. We can not release the text until the order of the Court is signed and filed. As soon as the order is filed, the BCCLA will be distributing the text through our website and to our media list via e-mail.

Click here to read the decision of the Provincial Court >>