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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 - Telephone calls may be monitored

52: Resident calls that may be monitored

You could also call this:

"Some of your phone calls might be listened to when you're a resident."

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When you make a call as a resident, it might be monitored under the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014. If you make a call that is not exempt, it can be monitored. You can find out more about the rules for monitoring calls by looking at the Act.

If someone is monitoring your call and thinks it might be an exempt call, but they are not sure, they can still monitor it. However, if they then realise it is an exempt call, they must stop listening to it. They also have to make sure any recordings of the call are destroyed.

The rules for monitoring exempt calls are connected, so if someone is monitoring a call, they need to follow all the rules. You can compare this to other laws, such as the one mentioned in the link to s 113 of another Act.

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Part 1Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending
Management of residents: Telephone calls may be monitored

52Resident calls that may be monitored

  1. Any resident call that is not an exempt call may be monitored under this Act.

  2. An exempt call may be monitored under this Act if the person undertaking the monitoring does not have reasonable grounds to believe that it is an exempt call.

  3. A person listening to a resident call or a recording of a resident call under this Act who forms the view that there are reasonable grounds to believe that it is an exempt call—

  4. must promptly stop listening to it; and
    1. must take all practicable steps to ensure that every recording of it is destroyed or completely erased.

      1. Subsection (2) is subject to subsection (3).

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