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Hobart City Council

Investigation into Hobart City Council

Between July 2017 and May 2018, the Local Government Division conducted an investigation into the disclosure of confidential information from the Hobart City Council.

The reason for the investigation was that information from a report, the Hobart City Council – Communications Review, which was confidentially provided to Hobart City Council Aldermen, was leaked to the Mercury newspaper. The Mercury published excerpts of the report in an article titled Communications review reveals lack of trust in council on 22 July 2017.

Under the Local Government Act 1993 section 338A, it is an offence for a councillor or employee of a council to disclose confidential information.

In May 2018 the Director of Local Government released an investigation report, Hobart City Council Disclosure of Information Investigation Report May 2018.

The Report recommended that the Council could enhance its information security by:

  • ending the practice of providing hard copies through the Council’s reading room, or at least putting additional controls in place;
  • assessing and determining the possibility of further restricting staff access to confidential information; and
  • reviewing the possibility of automatically logging users out of the Aldermanic hub after a period of inactivity, and enabling regular password changes.