Domestic and Family Violence Disclosure in Case Record

Detects client, tenant, patient or customer case records that record a disclosure of domestic and family violence (DFV): case notes, intake assessments, service referrals and payment applications that name or number an individual and state that they have disclosed, experienced, fled or are at risk of DFV, coercive control or intimate partner violence. Sector-neutral: the same shape appears in housing, human services, health, education, justice and Commonwealth support records (Leaving Violence Program, the legacy Escaping Violence Payment, and Crisis Payment for extreme circumstances family and domestic violence). Also covers information-sharing requests and disclosures under Part 5A of the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (Qld) - s 169D (assessing a domestic violence threat), s 169E (responding to a serious domestic violence threat) and s 169F (police referral to a specialist DFV service provider) - made or received by prescribed entities (for example state schools, Hospital and Health Services, housing, corrections and police) and specialist DFV service providers, when the record names the requesting or disclosing entity, the person at risk or the person using violence, the information shared, the reason and the date. The Department of Education's Part 5A Instrument of Authorisation, which quotes s 169D verbatim, and the DFV Information Sharing Guidelines are decoys.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the disclosure phrase is common in policy, training and service guidance, so enforce tiers depend on a populated case-record field to distinguish an individual's record from general text. Free-text case notes without any structured identifier fall to the discovery-only tier. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: pii, government
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Unsupported, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:disclos(?:ed|es|ing|ure\s+of)|report(?:ed|s|ing)|experienc(?:ed|es|ing)|fle(?:e|es|eing|d)|escap(?:ed|es|ing)|subjected\s+to|history\s+of|victim\s+of|at\s+risk\s+of)\s+(?:[a-z]{1,20}\s{1,5}){0,3}?(?:domestic\s+(?:and\s+family\s+)?violence|family\s+(?:and\s+domestic\s+)?violence|DFV|FDV|intimate\s+partner\s+violence|coercive\s+control|non-fatal\s+strangulation)\b|\bCONFIDENTIAL:\s+Domestic\s+and\s+family\s+violence\s+information\b|\b(?:Leaving\s+Violence\s+Program|Escaping\s+Violence\s+Payment|Crisis\s+Payment\s+for\s+extreme\s+circumstances\s+family\s+and\s+domestic\s+violence)\b|\b(?:(?:DFV\s+)?information[\s-]+sharing\s+(?:request|disclosure|referral)|Part\s+5A\s+(?:request|disclosure|referral)|(?:request|disclosure|referral)\s+under\s+(?:s(?:ection)?\.?\s*)?169[DEF]|(?:Part\s+5A|s(?:ection)?\.?\s*169[DEF])\s+(?:of\s+the\s+)?(?:DFVP\s+Act|Domestic\s+and\s+Family\s+Violence\s+Protection\s+Act)|specialist\s+DFV\s+service\s+provider)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

coercive control, victim-survivor, person using violence, safety plan, protection order, refuge, DVConnect, 1800RESPECT, domestic violence, family violence, domestic and family violence, family and domestic violence, intimate partner violence, [object Object], [object Object], financial abuse, technology-facilitated abuse, non-fatal strangulation, strangulation, threats to kill (+53 more)

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Case note 12/08/2026. Client name: Avery Teston. Client ID: C4417820. Client disclosed domestic and family violence from former partner Jordan Teston, including coercive control and non-fatal strangulation in July. Safety plan completed; referral made to DVConnect. — Case note with client identifiers and a DFV disclosure
Customer reference: 204889137K. Customer is fleeing family violence with two children and has applied to the Leaving Violence Program. Victim-survivor is staying with a relative; person using violence remains at the former address. — Payment record for a customer fleeing family violence
Patient ID: MRN0048213. Date of birth: 04/02/1991. Patient reported experiencing intimate partner violence over 18 months. Safety plan provided; referred to specialist DFV service with consent. — Health intake note recording an intimate partner violence disclosure
Tenant name: Morgan Teston File number: HF-2026-00817 Notes: tenant disclosed domestic violence and requested a transfer. Protection order in place; referred to DVConnect. — Case record where the disclosure wraps across a line break (PDF extraction)
Part 5A information sharing request - DFVP Act s 169D Requesting entity: Metro South Hospital and Health Service Disclosing entity: Rivergum State School Person at risk: Avery Teston Person using violence: Jordan Teston Information shared: attendance records and collection arrangements Date of disclosure: 14/09/2026 Consent not obtained - serious threat to the person's life, health or safety. Level 2 risk assessment completed. — School disclosure to a Hospital and Health Service under s 169D with parties, information and date (Part 5A 85 tier)
Information sharing disclosure (s 169E) Receiving entity: Queensland Police Service Respondent: Jordan Teston Date of disclosure: 21/08/2026 Reason for sharing: respondent released from custody and knows the new address. Consent not obtained. — Section 169E disclosure to police with the respondent, date and reason (Part 5A 85 tier)
Referral under s 169F to specialist DFV service provider Person at risk: Casey Teston Contact attempted by phone; no answer. — Police referral received by a specialist DFV service provider with a named person at risk (Part 5A 75 tier)

Should not match

Where a client discloses domestic and family violence, staff must offer a referral to DVConnect and record the disclosure in the case file. Do not record the address of any refuge. — Practice guidance describing how to handle a disclosure, with no individual record
Client name: __________ Case number: __________ Has the client disclosed domestic violence? [ ] Yes [ ] No — Blank intake form
In 2024-25 the department recorded 4,812 households reporting family violence as a reason for seeking assistance, a 9% increase on the prior year. — Aggregate statistics
Client name: Avery Teston. Client ID: C4417820. Client reported rent arrears of $1,240 and agreed to a repayment plan. — Ordinary case note without DFV content
Instrument of Authorisation - Director-General's Powers under Part 5A of the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012. Schedule 1 - Table of Authorised Officers. s.169D Sharing information for assessing domestic violence threat. (1) A prescribed entity or specialist DFV service provider (each the holder) may give information to another prescribed entity or specialist DFV service provider if the holder reasonably believes (a) a person fears or is experiencing domestic violence. Authorised Officers (Column 4): Principal, Deputy Principal, Guidance Officer. — Department of Education Part 5A Instrument of Authorisation quoting s 169D (critical decoy, 65 only)
Information sharing request (Part 5A) Requesting entity: __________ Person at risk: __________ Person using violence: __________ Information requested: __________ Date of request: ___/___/____ — Blank Part 5A request form (65 only)
Council is not a prescribed entity under s 169C of the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 and cannot make an information sharing request, but staff may refer a resident to a specialist DFV service provider with consent. — Council DFV policy describing Part 5A (65 only)
Domestic and Family Violence Information Sharing Guidelines. A specialist DFV service provider receiving an information sharing request should record the requesting entity, the person at risk and the information shared. Requesting entity: Brisbane North HHS. Person at risk: Sam Sample. — Information Sharing Guidelines with an illustrative record, suppressed by the guidance exclusion

Known false positives

Policies, practice guides and training that describe how to respond when someone discloses DFV. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require a populated case-record field; guidance text has field labels without values or no labels at all.
Blank intake and assessment forms containing DFV screening questions. Mitigation: Field values that are blank lines, square-bracket or angle-bracket placeholders, or n/a/tbc are rejected.
Case notes about a worker or third party rather than the client (for example a staff member's own disclosure in an HR file). Mitigation: These are still sensitive DFV records; route to the same handling rather than suppress.
Part 5A legislation, the DoE Instrument of Authorisation, the DFV Information Sharing Guidelines, training and council policies quoting ss 169C-169F. Mitigation: Part 5A enforce tiers need populated party, information, date or consent fields; guidance exclusion on Instrument of Authorisation, Column 4, Table of Authorised Officers, the Guidelines title and "Example for paragraph".

References

Collections

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Records