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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Monitoring, collecting, using, and disclosing prisoner communications and information sources for intelligence purpose - Monitoring, collecting, and using information under this subpart

127L: Monitoring of exempt prisoner communications and information sources

You could also call this:

"Stop spying on prisoners' private conversations and destroy any info you collected by mistake"

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If you are monitoring prisoner communications, you must stop if you think they are exempt. You have to stop right away if you believe the communications are exempt. You must also destroy any information you collected about the prisoner.

If you collected information by mistake, you have to take steps to destroy it. This means you must do everything you can to get rid of the information. You are doing this because the information is about exempt prisoner communications.

You can find more about the law that says this in the Corrections Amendment Act 2024.

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Part 2Corrections system
Monitoring, collecting, using, and disclosing prisoner communications and information sources for intelligence purpose: Monitoring, collecting, and using information under this subpart

127LMonitoring of exempt prisoner communications and information sources

  1. An authorised intelligence person who is monitoring, collecting, or using prisoner communications and information sources under this subpart and who forms the view that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the prisoner communications and information sources are exempt prisoner communications and information sources must—

  2. promptly stop monitoring, collecting, or using them; and
    1. ensure that all practicable steps are taken to destroy any information collected under this subpart.

      Notes
      • Section 127L: inserted, on , by section 36 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 41).