Police Superintendent follow-up correspondence

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Email to TPS Fourteen Division head Domenic Sinopoli, from Jutta Mason, cc Jane Price

Dear Superintendent Sinopoli,
I'm writing to ask for a meeting with you, to follow up on a visit to my house by three of your officers on Feb.12, 2025. At that time they cautioned me, as the result of a complaint of an assault by me on a 22-year-old Dufferin Rink staff named Jordan. They told me they were giving me a trespass order applying to the Dufferin Rink building.

When my friend Jane Price and I went to Fourteen Division on Feb.26 to try and find out more, we were told that the trespass order could be lifetime. I have posted the timeline of what police and also city staff said and when they said it here.

It seems like there may have been a problem with how this situation was handled by your officers. May I come and see you, this week or next, to talk about this? I'd like to bring my friend Jane along. If there was indeed a better way for your officers to address this kind of complaint, it would be good to talk it out and find a way to not have it happen like this again.

Thursday May 15, 2025

From Domenic Sinopoli, cc Robert Choe, Izzy Bernardo, Jane Price

Good day Ms. Mason, I hope this email finds you well.

I am very familiar with your matter as I had received inquiries from the management team at the City regarding the trespass issue.

As I had explained to them, the officers responded to a radio call during which, they received instruction from the city staffers, who for the purposes of our response, are agents for the City.

What flowed from their investigation, is direction from the city staffers that they wanted you trespassed from the recreation centre indefinitely.

They attended your home; cautioned you for the assault portion of this incident; then issued you a trespass notice prohibiting you from entering the recreation centre.

It is important to distinguish between a trespass notice and a trespass charge. You were not charged but you were issued a trespass notice advising you that you are not permitted to attend the recreation centre.

What the officers did and how it was handled conforms to their duties and responsibilities and is in line with out policies.

Since then, I understand that you have had a meeting with City management and have come to some sort of resolution. As a result, the Director, Mr Sarrafzadeh wrote to me on May 2nd advising that they are lifting the trespass notice.

As a result, the occurrence was updated and there is no risk to you being charged with trespassing.

Typically, if the City or other agent, wanted you banned indefinitely, then the information you received, in that the ban could be for a lifetime, is accurate. However, that is not the case where you are now concerned.

I hope this alleviates your concerns.

Regards, dom