My lifetime trespass order (as it stands now)

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Jane Price and I went to Fourteen Division TPS station today. At my request, staff there looked up the report number from Feb.12 2025 and said that the police can verbally issue a trespass order if they have a reasonable grounds to believe an assault occurred.

It sounds like, since there were two of the rec guys who did all this, and only one of me, that means that the second rec guy counts as a neutral witness.

I was told that the only way I can find out what was reported against me is if I go in person to 40 College St and pay $67.50. Or, for accommodation, because it's hard for me to walk inside the station, I can paper-mail them my cheque and request, and they will send me the report by return mail.

I will not be sending money, so I won't find out. The front desk staff person at Fourteen Division said that a verbal trespass order from police is lifetime if they choose.

It used to be that the owner of the property, in this case the Corporation of the City of Toronto, would have to sign off on a trespass order forbidding any person access to our public spaces. But obviously that was then, this is now.

Follow-up

Trespass orders follow-up: policy and practice

Meantime city management clarified that they did not ask for a trespass order -- but the city is treating this issue as falling under "our Code of Conduct and Human Rights and Anti-Harassment Policy." His investigation supervisor also sent me a link to the City of Toronto’s Workplace Violence Policy.

(Refresher: my account of what happened on Feb.12.)

(from Aydin Sarrafzadeh, director of management services) I continue to respectfully request that you refrain from attending the Dufferin Grove clubhouse and other recreation facilities and/or engaging with staff on-site, until the investigation process is completed.

I understand that Ms. Jones [supervisor, labour relations and investigations] has reached out to you and is working to advance this investigation. I request, and would greatly appreciate your cooperation.

Therefore I wrote to Ms.Jones today and suggested meeting at my house (easier for me to get to, obviously, in this last bit of winter weather): "There is plenty of seating in our first floor living room for you and a few colleagues. Over the last forty years this living room has been the site of many public space conversations, with all levels of recreation staff including up to the director level, so this will be just one more."

Ms.Jones had already written "we request that details of the investigation be kept confidential for the integrity of the investigation process, with the exceptions listed in the Procedures such as a legal advisor, health care practitioner, support person, and family."

On that we have to disagree. I wrote to her: "In my view, that would miss a chance for some Torontonians to gain a better understanding of how problems in public space are addressed at City Hall. The more open this process is, the better -- since our parks are public spaces and city staff are public employees."

So I'll continue to report on what happens next. See also: the correspondence file