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Report on Justice and Community Safety

An Assembly Committee today published a report recommending 19 improvements to the operation of the Courts, corrective services, police, emergency services, and human rights in the Territory.

During this inquiry, the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety examined the ACT Government annual reports for 2019-20, and the sections of the ACT Budget 2020-21 that fall within its areas of responsibility.

Committee recommendations relate to ACT Policing, Courts and Tribunals, Emergency Services Agency, Alexander Maconochie Centre, payday loans, road safety, smoke and air quality, victims of crime, oversight by the Human Rights Commission, and funding for Legal Aid and Community Legal Centres.

The report is available at: JCS-Report-1-Annual-and-Financial-Reports-2019-2020-Appropriation-Bill-2020-2021-and-Appropriation-Office-of-the-Legislative-Assembly-Bill-2020-2021.pdf

30 March 2021

STATEMENT ENDS.

For further information please contact:

Committee Chair, Mr Jeremy Hanson MLA on (02) 6205 0135

Committee Secretary, Brianna McGill, on (02) 6207 0524 or at LACommitteeJCS@parliament.act.gov.au