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Corrections Act 2004

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

127N: Disclosure of prisoner communications and information sources to eligible employees

You could also call this:

"Sharing prisoner information with approved staff to keep everyone safe"

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When you work with prisoner communications and information sources, you need to know who can see them. You can share these communications and information sources with other people who are allowed to see them. This is so you can work together to keep everyone safe.

If you are an authorised intelligence person, you can share prisoner communications and information sources with another authorised intelligence person for certain purposes, which are described in section 127O(2) to (7). You can also share them with other eligible employees for certain purposes, which are described in section 127O(2), (6), or (7). This helps you do your job and keep everyone safe.

You can also share prisoner communications and information sources with someone who can translate, transcribe, or interpret them. This means you can get help from someone who speaks a different language or can understand something you do not. Another eligible employee can also share prisoner communications and information sources with you for an intelligence purpose.

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Monitoring, collecting, using, and disclosing prisoner communications and information sources for intelligence purpose: Disclosure

127NDisclosure of prisoner communications and information sources to eligible employees

  1. This section applies to the disclosure to eligible employees of prisoner communications and information sources collected under this subpart.

  2. An authorised intelligence person may disclose the prisoner communications and information sources to—

  3. another authorised intelligence person for a purpose described in section 127O(2) to (7):
    1. an eligible employee (who is not an authorised intelligence person) for a purpose described in section 127O(2), (6), or (7).

      1. An authorised intelligence person may also disclose prisoner communications and information sources to an eligible employee (who is or is not an authorised intelligence person) so that the employee may translate, transcribe, or interpret the prisoner communications and information sources.

      2. An eligible employee (who is not an authorised intelligence person) may disclose the prisoner communications and information sources to another eligible employee (including an authorised intelligence person) for an intelligence purpose.

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