Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) If an offender has been sentenced, the director-general may disclose information about the offender to a registered victim of the offender if satisfied the disclosure is appropriate in the circumstances.
Examples—disclosures
1 any non-association order or place restriction order that applies to the offender
2 if the offender is under an intensive correction order—the place where the offender may do community service work or attend a rehabilitation program
3 if the offender is under a good behaviour order—the place where the offender may do community service work or attend a rehabilitation program
4 if the offender is serving a sentence of imprisonment by full-time detention—
• the correctional centre where the offender is detained;
• the offender's classification in detention;
• the transfer of the offender between correctional centres, including NSW correctional centres;
• the offender's parole eligibility date;
• any unescorted leave given to the offender under the Corrections Management Act 2007
;
• the death or escape of, or any other exceptional event relating to, the offender.
(2) If the victim is a child under 15 years old, the director-general may give the information to a person who has parental responsibility for the victim under the Children and Young People Act 2008
.
Note The Crimes (Sentencing) Act 2005
, s 136 (Information exchanges between criminal justice entities) also deals with information about a victim of an offence.
(3) Subsection (2) does not limit the cases in which the director-general may give information to a person acting for a victim.
(4) In this section:
"offender" does not include a young offender.