HALIFAX - The head of a civil liberties group says police are using privacy laws to shield themselves from scrutiny of their actions.
David Eby of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association says the RCMP and other police forces are citing privacy legislation to justify not releasing details of investigations into their conduct.
RCMP in Cape Breton announced Monday that one of its officers wouldn't be charged in the fatal shooting of John Simon on the Wagmatcook First Nation.
The Mounties said federal privacy laws prevent them from revealing many details of what happened in the incident a year ago.
Simon was intoxicated and suicidal when he was shot by an RCMP officer at a home in Wagmatcook.
His common-law spouse says she still has questions that police wouldn't answer because of the privacy law.
