Sep 25
Information on the Missing Persons Act
Ontario’s Missing Persons Act is a new law that came into effect on July 1, 2019 that may impact health care professionals, including OTs. This Act expands the tools available to police when attempting to locate missing individuals. A “missing person” is defined as someone whose whereabouts are unknown and, either, the person has not been in contact with people who would likely be in contact with that person or there is a reasonable fear for that person’s safety, and police were not able to find this individual after making reasonable efforts to do so.
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