This book offers a pathway for policy makers and field workers to develop and implement measures that allow the use of personal information to support effective community intervention within the confines of privacy law and privacy expectations.

The purpose is to provide professionals concrete solutions to collect and share personal information in support of effective community intervention while respecting the fundamental right to privacy. It uses crime prevention projects as case studies to illustrate community intervention models where privacy issues arise most acutely and are addressed to pursue the interventions objectives.

The text includes:

• Detailed step-by-step analysis of The Legal Framework to Integrate Privacy to Community Intervention
• Privacy Impact Assessments
• Challenges and Strategies with a case study
• Annex includes:
  • Multidisciplinary Interventions
  • Early Intervention Initiatives
  • Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence
  • Government of Ontario Provincial Approach to Community Safety and Well-being