Abuse-Free Sport registry made public by Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner
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OTTAWA — The Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner has made public a registry of people barred or provisionally suspended from participating in sport.
The establishment of a public searchable database of individuals who have been sanctioned under the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent Abuse and Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS), or whose eligibility to participate in sport has been restricted, was announced in June 2023 by former federal sports minister Pascale St-Onge.
The purpose of the registry is to alert organizations and prevent the rehiring of abusers. Sport bodies quietly parting company with abusers, which allowed them to be hired elsewhere, was a common complaint of athletes at parliamentary committee safe-sport hearings in 2022 and 2023.
The registry, maintained by OSIC, can include a person’s name, province, sport, category and nature of violation, sanction or provisional sanctions imposed and date and length of sanction.
