Queensland Council CCTV Footage Access Request and Release Record
Council records of requests for CCTV footage and of footage released: request forms from residents, insurers and businesses, police requests, and release registers or logs recording the camera, the footage period, the incident or Queensland Police Service (QPS) reference, and who received the footage. No Queensland statute deals specifically with council CCTV. Councils handle footage as personal information under the Information Privacy Act 2009 and their CCTV policy. A disclosure to a law enforcement agency relies on QPP 6.2(e) (disclosure reasonably necessary for enforcement-related activities), and QPP 6.5 requires the agency to make a written note of that disclosure. That note is the basis of the release register. Council CCTV policies, published camera location lists, legislation and news are decoys.
- Type
- regex
- Engine
- boost_regex
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence justification
- Medium. Footage request and release wording is distinctive, but council CCTV policies and web pages use the same words. Enforce tiers therefore need populated camera, footage-period, requester or incident-reference fields. Camera IDs and QPS occurrence numbers have no verified public format, so they are loose label-anchored values. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy. Test values are synthetic.
- Jurisdictions
- au, au-qld
- Regulations
- Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Council CCTV policy (no specific statute)
- Frameworks
- QGISCF
- Data categories
- pii, law-enforcement, government
- Scope
- narrow
- Risk rating
- 5
- Platform compatibility
- Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported
Pattern
(?i)\b(?:(?:CCTV|camera|video|surveillance|security\s+camera)\s+footage\s+(?:requests?|access\s+requests?|release|disclosure|application|register|log)|requests?\s+(?:for|to\s+(?:view|access|obtain))\s+(?:(?:CCTV|camera|video)\s+)?footage|footage\s+(?:requests?|release|disclosure)(?:\s+(?:form|register|log|record))?|CCTV\s+(?:requests?|release|disclosure|access)(?:\s+(?:form|register|log|record))?|release\s+of\s+(?:(?:CCTV|camera|video)\s+)?footage)\bCorroborative evidence keywords
Queensland Police Service, QPS, police, Information Privacy Act, law enforcement, council, insurance claim, incident
Proximity: 300 characters
Should match
CCTV footage release register - Harbourview Regional Council Request number: CR-2026-0142 Requested by: Senior Constable Jess Teston, Queensland Police Service QPS reference: QP2600913345 Camera ID: CAM-044 (Flinders Street Mall east) Footage period: 14/09/2026 22:00 to 22:45 Released to: Jess Teston on USB, 16/09/2026 Disclosure basis: QPP 6.2(e) law enforcement— Release register entry to QPS with camera, footage period, officer and QPS reference (85 tier)Request for CCTV footage - council customer service Applicant name: Pat Staffson Phone: 0413 555 776 Date and time of incident: 02/09/2026 approx 7:15 pm Camera location: Council car park level 2 Reason: vehicle damaged in car park, insurance claim lodged— Resident footage request with applicant details, incident time and camera (85 tier)Police request to view CCTV footage. Timestamp: 21/08/2026 01:32 Queensland Police Service attended the council operations centre to view the recording.— Police viewing request with a timestamp only (75 tier)Footage release log: incident number 2026-11873, copy provided to police on 05/09/2026.— Release log line with an incident number only (75 tier)
Should not match
This policy sets out how council manages requests for CCTV footage. Requests for footage from the Queensland Police Service are assessed under QPP 6.2(e) of the Information Privacy Act 2009 and each release is recorded in the CCTV release register.— Council CCTV policy (policy exclusion)6.5 If an agency uses or discloses personal information in accordance with QPP 6.2(e), the agency must make a written note of the use or disclosure.— IPA sch 3 QPP 6.5 text (legislation)CCTV footage request form - blank template Applicant name: ____________ Camera location: ____________ Date and time of incident: ____________ QPS reference: ____________— Blank footage request formPublic safety CCTV network - camera locations Camera ID: CAM-044 Location: Flinders Street Mall east Camera ID: CAM-045 Location: Victoria Bridge For footage requests, contact council.— Published camera location list (policy exclusion)Council released CCTV footage to police after the assault in the mall, and handled 214 footage requests last year, a council spokesperson said.— News and statistics (65 only)
Known false positives
- Council CCTV policies, procedures and web pages describe footage requests, release to QPS and the release register. Mitigation: Enforce tiers need populated camera, footage-period, requester or incident fields. A policy exclusion suppresses policy, procedure, FAQ and how-to text.
- Published lists of public safety camera locations with camera IDs. Mitigation: A camera-locations / network-map exclusion keeps them below enforce tiers.
- QPS and other agency records about footage they hold themselves. Mitigation: These can reach 75 if they carry a footage field and police context. They are still personal information about an incident, but deploy at 85 if volume is a concern. global-top500-408-surveillance-video-evidence covers footage used as evidence.