Exclusive: Authorities move to notify families after children’s names were provided in unredacted documents
were made available to several media outlets, following standard procedures.
Guardian Australia, which was one of the outlets which inspected the documents, has not retained any identifying information contained in the charge sheets and has no intention of contacting victims based on the information. However, no law prevents media companies from potentially approaching the families based on the information mistakenly shown to journalists.
“One of the things that I am pleased about in regards to this investigation is that we will not be calling on any of those 23 [NSW] victims to give evidence,” he said.
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