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A Toronto Police spokesperson says she was wrong when she told the National Post Monday that an upcoming body camera trial would not cover carding in most cases.

“There is no way to put this other than I was mistaken,” Meaghan Gray, the head of the department’s information and issues management section, said Tuesday.

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On Monday Gray told the Post that police officers equipped with body cameras as part of a pilot project rolling out this month would not be recording when they “card” citizens not under arrest or investigation.

There is no way to put this other than I was mistaken

“Carding means different things to different people,” she said Monday. “If you’re talking about an investigative detention or an arrest, that would be part of that investigative nature. But the community engagements that we’re talking about or the informal interactions that we have with the public, no it’s not turned on.”

That stance angered opponents of carding—the controversial practice of stopping citizens not under arrest or specific investigation and recording their personal data—one of whom, Andray Domise, told the Post it was an “absolutely laughable” policy.