Known Risk is Canada's first cross-referenced professional misconduct registry — sourced from public regulatory decisions, court documents, and named media reports.
Professional licence revocations, regulatory findings, and discipline decisions are public record — scattered across quarterly magazines, legal databases, and college registers no ordinary person can navigate. None of it appears on a criminal record check.
A teacher sent a student 6,000 text messages. Her licence was revoked. No criminal charges were ever laid.
The Ontario College of Teachers revoked her teaching certificate. The finding is public record — buried in a quarterly publication, accessible to anyone who knows to look, in the right issue, on the right page.
If she applied to teach at a private school in Ontario tomorrow, or at any school in any other province, this is what a background check returns:
Known Risk is the only tool that makes this record searchable in one place, cross-referenced against criminal outcomes, and accessible across Canada.
Every record in the Known Risk database carries a proprietary risk rating — synthesizing regulatory findings, criminal cross-references, victim data, recidivism indicators, and current licence status into a single score. No equivalent exists in Canada.
Background check companies, dating platforms, and sports organizations all face the same problem: CPIC returns criminal convictions. Known Risk returns regulatory findings — the records that don't appear anywhere else.