The Ministry of the Solicitor General initially denied the Star’s freedom-of-information request to access to the files, citing, in part, the serial killer’s privacy rights.
officers and a psychiatrist and deemed a “stable” person who posed a “very low risk,” newly released documents reveal.
McArthur, the probation document notes, “is prepared to do what is required to ensure a similar situation will not occur.” Releasing them would not constitute an unjustified invasion of McArthur’s personal privacy, Kowalski ruled, because disclosure was “desirable for subjecting the activities of government agencies to public scrutiny.”
Kowalski ruled there was a “compelling” public interest in the disclosure of the probation records in part due to concerns about what information police and public institutions had about McArthur for more than a decade when it took “seven years and eight deaths for him to be apprehended on murder charges.”‘Very low risk to reoffend’
In February 2004, a probation officer confirmed with Dionne that McArthur was still attending sessions and “is doing very well,” adding: “Dr. Dionne does not have any specific concerns with him and she is puzzled re: possible reasons for the violent behaviour of offence.”
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