{"id":2705,"date":"2025-10-20T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.thedev.ca\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:52:22","slug":"lco-at-a2j-week-2025-ai-in-the-criminal-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/lco-at-a2j-week-2025-ai-in-the-criminal-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"LCO at A2J Week 2025: AI in the Criminal Justice System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019re excited to be hosting an event during the Law Society of Ontario (LSO)\u2019s Access to Justice (A2J) Week 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/lso.ca\/theactiongroup\/access-to-justice-week\/programming\/a2j-week-2025-ai-and-access-to-justice-in-the-cana\">Join us<\/a> online on Monday, October 27th, for an engaging session on AI in the Canadian criminal justice system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll be exploring important practical and legal questions that are confronting Canadian police, courts, policymakers, Crowns, defence counsel, and criminal accused, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What AI systems could be used in the Canadian criminal justice system?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are the benefits and risks of this AI?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Who will be affected by AI in the criminal justice system?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are legal and access to justice issues?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are there gaps in Canadian law and legislation?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What can we learn from the experience of other jurisdictions?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How have Canadian police, policymakers, courts, and others responded to the emerging challenges?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Event Details<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> AI and Access to Justice in the Canadian Criminal Justice System: Opportunities, Risks and Response<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Monday, October 27th<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> 2 P.M. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Online<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free. <a href=\"https:\/\/lso.ca\/theactiongroup\/access-to-justice-week\/programming\/a2j-week-2025-ai-and-access-to-justice-in-the-cana\">Register on the LSO website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/our-team\/#ryan-fritsch\" title=\"Our Team\">Ryan Fritsch<\/a>, LCO Policy Counsel and Project Lead, AI in the Criminal Justice System<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/our-team\/#nye-thomas\" title=\"Our Team\">Nye Thomas<\/a>, LCO Executive Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to be hosting an event during the Law Society of Ontario (LSO)\u2019s Access to Justice (A2J) Week 2025. Join us online on Monday, October 27th, for an engaging session on AI in the Canadian criminal justice system. We\u2019ll be exploring important practical and legal questions that are confronting Canadian police, courts, policymakers, Crowns, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"LCO at A2J Week 2025: AI in the Criminal Justice System - Law Commission of Ontario","description":"We\u2019re excited to be hosting an event during the Law Society of Ontario (LSO)\u2019s Access to Justice (A2J) Week 2025. Join us online on Monday, October 27th, for an"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}