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Education Minister David Eggen said his constituency office filed a complaint with Edmonton police this spring after graphic flyers targeting the LGBTQ community were distributed on the city’s north side.

The police service’s hate crimes unit is investigating the flyers and has identified a person connected to the incidents, spokeswoman Patrycia Thenu said in an email Wednesday.

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“Further investigation will be conducted in order to determine if any criminal offences occurred,” Thenu said.

Printed on high-end card stock with high-resolution pictures, the flyers included “wild assertions” about Eggen and University of Alberta education professor Kris Wells, Eggen said. Eggen’s north Edmonton constituents found the flyers disturbing and were upset children had seen them, he said.

Some parents have petitioned Eggen with concerns about a gay-straight alliance resource website that included some links to other sites that sometimes posted salacious material. The links have since been removed.