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Corrections Act 2004

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

127P: Employee must not knowingly disclose prisoner communications and information sources

You could also call this:

"Staff must keep prisoner information secret, except in special cases allowed by law."

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If you are an authorised intelligence person, you must not tell other employees about prisoner communications and information sources, except as allowed under section 127N(2) or (3). You can only share this information with eligible employees who are allowed to know. If you are an eligible employee but not an authorised intelligence person, you must not share prisoner communications and information sources with other employees, except as allowed under section 127N(4).

As an authorised intelligence person, you must not share prisoner communications and information sources with people outside of the eligible employees, except as allowed under section 127O(2) to (7). If you are an eligible employee but not an authorised intelligence person, you must not share prisoner communications and information sources with people outside of the eligible employees, except as allowed under section 127O(6) or (7).

When sharing information, you need to know that "B" means someone who is not an eligible employee.

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

127PEmployee must not knowingly disclose prisoner communications and information sources

  1. An authorised intelligence person must not knowingly disclose prisoner communications and information sources collected under this subpart to an eligible employee except under section 127N(2) or (3).

  2. An eligible employee (who is not an authorised intelligence person) must not knowingly disclose prisoner communications and information sources collected under this subpart to another eligible employee except under section 127N(4).

  3. In subsections (4) and (5), B means a person other than an eligible employee.

  4. An authorised intelligence person must not knowingly disclose prisoner communications and information sources monitored, collected, or used under this subpart to B except under section 127O(2) to (7).

  5. An eligible employee (who is not an authorised intelligence person) must not knowingly disclose prisoner communications and information sources monitored, collected, or used under this subpart to B except under section 127O(6) or (7).

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