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(EMAILWIRE.COM, March 28, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- A solicitor for a Queensland crime and corruption watchdog is now denying any direct fault in the declassification of confidential Fitzgerald Inquiry documents. It claims the Crime and Misconduct Commission employee had assured her mistake had been wholly fixed.
The Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee is now investigating how the series of documents from the 1980s corruption inquiry made its way to release for the public.
The error came to light in May of 2012, but was not properly addressed until the following September.
Sidoni Wood, the official solicitor to the CMC, stated that the comissionÂ’s director of information management, Peter Duell, had assured the documents' restricted access period had been changed following the mishaps.
The documents had a restricted clause placed on them for 65 years, which was lessened to 20 years as a result of some materials being released.
The letter, shown to Ms Wood had outlined Duell, who initially declassified the secretive material, and reclassified the RAP on the material from 20 years back to 65 last may.
It was reported that earlier in the month the sensitive records were still accessible by the public at the State Archives. Wood told the PCMC hearing on Wednesday that she had no reason to doubt Duell, and so took him on his word.
"He was competent and diligent and he had a good grasp of it," she said.
But counsel assisting the PCMC, Kerri Mellifont SC, said it was Ms Wood's responsibility to check the changes were made.
"He (Mr Duell) told me it had been fixed and I accepted that," Ms Wood replied.
Ms Mellifont said that was despite Mr Duell ordering the declassification in the first place.
"There was nothing at all to prevent you from taking other steps to check it?" Ms Mellifont asked.
"I was tasked to do a certain role and I was satisfied he changed the RAP of specific material," Ms Wood said.
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