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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

127M: Monitoring that is incidental to other work

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"Listening or watching prisoners by accident while doing your job"

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If you are doing work for the Corrections department, like fixing or maintaining a system, you might hear or see things that prisoners are saying or doing. This can happen if the system is used to record or store what prisoners are saying or doing. You are allowed to listen to, watch, read, or look at these things if you need to, in order to do your job properly. You can do this even if the things you are listening to, watching, reading, or looking at are private or secret, as long as it is necessary for your work.

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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

127MMonitoring that is incidental to other work

  1. This section applies to a person who is undertaking, with the chief executive’s authority, work comprising the administration, installation, maintenance, repair, testing, or upgrading of a system—

  2. by or from which recordings, copies, printouts, transcripts, or translations of prisoner communications and information sources are made; or
    1. in which recordings, copies, printouts, transcripts, or translations of prisoner communications and information sources collected under this subpart are stored.

      1. The person may listen to, watch, read, or examine prisoner communications and information sources (including exempt prisoner communications and information sources) if doing so is necessary for, or incidental to, the effective undertaking of the work concerned.

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