Queensland Council Closed Meeting Confidential Report

Council agenda reports, attachments and minutes for business closed to the public under Local Government Regulation 2012 s254J: CEO or staff appointment, discipline or dismissal; rating concessions; commercial negotiations; land acquisition; legal advice and other confidential matters.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: primary anchors are distinctive form titles and statutory terms, but they also appear in guidance, blank forms and statistics, so enforce tiers require populated record structure. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic records laid out like the published forms.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Local Government Regulation 2012 (Qld), Local Government Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: government
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:closed\s+to\s+the\s+public|closed\s+(?:session|meeting|business)|confidential\s+(?:item|report|business|session)|(?:section|s\.?)\s{0,2}254J(?:\s{0,2}\(\d\))?(?:\s{0,2}\([a-z]\))?|meeting\s+closed\s+under)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

Local Government Regulation 2012, Chief Executive Officer, CEO, rating concession, commercial negotiations, land acquisition, legal advice, contractual matters

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Ordinary Meeting — Confidential Item 14.2 Meeting date: 18/09/2026 Author: Director Corporate Services This report is confidential and the meeting will be closed to the public under s254J(3)(g) — negotiations relating to a commercial matter involving the local government. Offer from Harbour Developments for Lot 12 is $2.4 million. — Populated record 1
Closed session under section 254J(3)(a): appointment of the Chief Executive Officer. Council received the recruitment panel report recommending Jordan Staffson. Moved: Cr Riley Teston Seconded: Cr Alex Staffson Resolution carried 7-2. — Populated record 2
CONFIDENTIAL — Item 9.1 Rating concession application, closed to the public under s254J(3)(d). Applicant: Harbour Community Care Inc. Recommended concession: 50% of general rates for 2026-27. — Populated record 3

Should not match

Under section 254J of the Local Government Regulation 2012, council may resolve that a meeting be closed to the public only for specified matters, and must state the matter in the resolution. — Guidance or explainer text
Agenda item template Item number: ____ Meeting date: ____ Closed to the public under s254J(3)( ): ____ — Blank form
Council closed 23 meeting sessions to the public in 2025-26, down from 31 the previous year, the annual report shows. — Aggregate statistics or news

Known false positives

Guidance pages, fact sheets, policy and training text that name the record type. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require populated record fields; guidance uses the labels without values.
Blank forms and form kits. Mitigation: Blank lines, square-bracket and angle-bracket placeholders and n/a/tbc values are rejected.
Aggregate statistics and news reporting. Mitigation: No populated person or reference fields, so these stay at 65 discovery.

References

Local Government Regulation 2012 s254J