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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

55: Warnings

You could also call this:

"Warnings: You might be listened to when making phone calls in some places"

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When you are in a residence, the person in charge must make sure you know some things. You will be told in writing that some of your telephone calls may be listened to, which types of calls are not listened to, and why the information from the calls might be used. You will also see written notices near the phones that remind you your calls may be listened to, except for certain calls, and why the information from the calls might be used. When you make a call that is being listened to, you will hear a message at the start of the call saying it may be listened to, and the person you are calling will also hear this message.

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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

55Warnings

  1. The chief executive must take all practicable steps to ensure that,—

  2. on or reasonably promptly after being admitted to a residence, residents are informed in writing—
    1. that some of their telephone calls may be monitored; and
      1. which types of call are exempt from monitoring; and
        1. the purposes for which information obtained from monitoring may be used; and
        2. there are prominently placed in every residence, near telephones that residents are authorised to use, written notices—
          1. warning residents that their telephone calls (other than exempt calls) may be monitored; and
            1. stating in general terms the purposes for which information obtained from monitoring may be used; and
            2. at the start of every outward resident call that is being or is to be monitored, the resident hears, and there is transmitted to the device to which the call is made, a message to the effect that the call may be monitored.

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