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Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending - Management of residents - Monitoring of written communications

45: Checking and withholding of written communications in certain cases

You could also call this:

"Managers can check and stop letters if they think it's not safe for you or others."

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If you live in a residence, the manager can check your written communications, like letters, if they think it might not be good for you or others. The manager can do this if they have a good reason to believe it could go against your management plan or hurt you or someone else. They will look at the communication to decide what to do.

If the manager checks a communication and thinks it will hurt you or someone else, they can stop it from being sent or received. This means you might not get a letter that was sent to you, or a letter you wrote might not be sent. The manager makes this decision to protect you or others, based on your management plan or what they think is best.

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Part 1Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending
Management of residents: Monitoring of written communications

45Checking and withholding of written communications in certain cases

  1. If there are reasonable grounds for believing that the receipt by, or the dispatch on behalf of, a resident of any written communication may contravene the resident's management plan or may otherwise be detrimental to the interests and treatment of the resident or of other persons, the manager of the residence may direct that the communication be checked.

  2. If, on checking a written communication under subsection (1), the manager considers that the receipt or dispatch of the communication contravenes the resident's management plan or may otherwise be detrimental to the interests of the resident or of other persons, the manager may direct that the communication be withheld from the resident or not be dispatched, as the case requires.

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