Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) If a young offender has been sentenced, the director-general may disclose information about the young offender to a registered victim of the young 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 young offender
2 if the young offender is under a good behaviour order—the place where the young offender may do community service work or attend a rehabilitation program
3 if the young offender is to be released from imprisonment—when and where the young offender will be released
(2) However, the director-general must not disclose identifying information for the young offender unless the offence was a personal violence offence and the director-general believes that the victim, or a family member of the victim, may come into contact with the young offender.
Examples
1 the victim and young offender live in the same neighbourhood and may see each other at the local shopping centre
2 the victim and young offender may be enrolled at the same school
(3) 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.
(4) Subsection (3) does not limit the cases in which the director-general may give information to a person acting for a victim.
(5) In this section:
"family violence offence"—see the Family Violence Act 2016
, dictionary .
"personal violence offence" means—
(a) an offence that involves causing harm, or threatening to cause harm, to anyone; or
(b) a
family violence offence.