Queensland Public Sector Discipline Record (Show Cause Notice, Allegations, Disciplinary Finding)

Discipline records about an identified public sector employee under the Public Sector Act 2022 (Qld) and the Discipline Directive 05/23 (made under ss 100 and 222): show cause notices on disciplinary finding (allegation, particulars, the disciplinary ground under section 91 and the evidence, 14 days to respond), show cause notices on proposed disciplinary action (7 days), suspension notices, disciplinary findings and decision letters. Council and university discipline letters that use the same wording (show cause, allegation, particulars, disciplinary finding) are also caught. Overlaps global-top500-063-disciplinary-records (generic, being rebuilt separately); this classifier is the Qld-anchored, populated-record version.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the notice names and the section 91 ground come straight from Directive 05/23 and the Act, but the same words fill the directive, agency guidance, training and published appeal decisions, so enforce tiers need populated employee and allegation fields and 85 also needs a response-date or finding structure. Employee and position numbers are agency-defined, so values are label-anchored and placeholder-guarded rather than shape-checked. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic notices laid out like the directive's required content.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Public Sector Act 2022 (Qld), Discipline Directive 05/23 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: pii, employment
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:show[\s-]+cause\s+(?:notice|letter|process|response)(?:\s+on\s+(?:(?:a\s+)?disciplinary\s+finding|proposed\s+disciplinary\s+action))?|notice\s+to\s+show\s+cause|Discipline\s+Directive|Directive\s+0?5/23|disciplinary\s+(?:ground|finding|decision)s?|proposed\s+disciplinary\s+action|serious\s+disciplinary\s+action|grounds?\s+for\s+discipline|(?:section|s\.?)\s*91\s*\(1\)(?:\s*\([a-h]\))?)

Corroborative evidence keywords

show cause notice on disciplinary finding, show cause notice on proposed disciplinary action, disciplinary ground, allegation, particulars, natural justice, Public Sector Act 2022, suspension

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

SHOW CAUSE NOTICE ON DISCIPLINARY FINDING Employee: Jordan Testwell Position number: 30012345 Allegation 1: On 14 July 2026 you accessed the client records of a family member without a work reason. Disciplinary ground: section 91(1)(b) of the Public Sector Act 2022 Response due: 18/09/2026 — Show cause notice with employee, allegation, disciplinary ground and response date (85 tier)
Disciplinary finding and decision Employee number: 1042877 Particulars of allegation 2: you failed to declare secondary employment with a council contractor. Finding on allegation 2: substantiated Proposed disciplinary action: reprimand Natural justice was afforded under the Public Sector Act 2022. — Finding letter with employee number, particulars, finding and proposed action (85 tier)
Show cause notice on proposed disciplinary action Subject employee: Casey Teston The delegate proposes a reduction in classification level. Please provide any response within seven days. — Proposed-action notice with a populated employee field only (75 tier)
Notice to show cause - School of Engineering Staff member: Riley Testwell The University is considering whether disciplinary action is warranted and invites your written response. — University show cause letter with a populated staff member field (75 tier)
Discipline Directive 05/23 process - suspension Employee: Morgan Teston Suspended with effect from 02/09/2026 on normal remuneration pending the show cause process. — Suspension notice with employee and suspension date, no allegation (75 tier)

Should not match

A show cause notice on disciplinary finding must set out the allegation, the particulars of the allegation, the applicable disciplinary ground under section 91 and the evidence relied on. The employee must be given 14 days to respond. — Directive 05/23 guidance text (65 only)
SHOW CAUSE NOTICE ON DISCIPLINARY FINDING Employee: [employee name] Position number: __________ Allegation 1: [insert allegation] Response due: [date] — Blank notice with placeholders (65 only)
CATCHWORDS: PUBLIC SERVICE - APPEAL AGAINST DISCIPLINARY DECISION - show cause notice - whether finding fair and reasonable. Employee: Jordan Testwell. Allegation 1: that the appellant used a work vehicle for private travel on 3 occasions. — Published appeal decision header quoting the notice (excluded by catchwords)
Training module 4 case study: the delegate issues a show cause notice to Employee: Pat Testcase, setting out Allegation 1: that the officer disclosed confidential information to a friend. — Training case study (excluded)
The department issued 212 show cause notices and made 97 disciplinary findings in 2025-26, the annual report shows. — Aggregate statistics / news (65 only)

Known false positives

Directive 05/23, agency discipline guidance and forgov pages describe show cause notices, allegations and particulars. Mitigation: Enforce tiers need a populated employee or allegation field; guidance uses the labels without values, and a directive/guidance exclusion suppresses text that names this directive, fact sheets or FAQs.
Published QIRC and court decisions quote show cause notices and allegations in full. Mitigation: Decisions carry a CATCHWORDS header, which is in the exclusion group. Decisions are public, so they are not the target record; decision extracts without catchwords can still reach 75.
Blank notice templates and form kits. Mitigation: Blank lines, square-bracket and angle-bracket placeholders and n/a/tbc values are rejected; template wording is excluded by the shared template-exclusion dictionary.
Student discipline records (school suspension, academic show cause) use similar words. Mitigation: Those are covered by au-qld-school-suspension-exclusion-decision and au-tertiary-academic-progression-show-cause; this classifier needs employee-type labels (employee, staff member, officer, position number) or allegation particulars.