Home affairs fought for three years to stop Serco detention centre manual release

Information Commissioner orders release, rejecting argument it would enable detainees to ‘intimidate Serco personnel’

Home affairs tried to suppress the release of Serco’s immigration detention centre operating manual by arguing it would allow immigration detainees to make human rights complaints as a “means of intimidating Serco personnel”.

The Department of Home Affairs and Serco, which helps run Australia’s onshore detention centres, fought for almost three years to keep the company’s detention centre policy and procedure manual secret from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

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