Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Act 2025
Daniel’s Law is a new Queensland initiative designed to help protect children by giving Queenslanders clearer, safer pathways to seek information on convicted and sentenced child sex offenders.
The law introduces a disclosure scheme that allows members of the public to access certain information about particular reportable offenders on Queensland’s Child Protection Register and particular offenders subject to a current supervision order under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003.
The three types of disclosures under Daniel’s Law include:
- Missing Reportable Offender webpage
The Missing Reportable Offender webpage publishes the photographs, name and year of birth of reportable offenders who have failed to comply with their reporting obligations and whose whereabouts are currently unknown to police.
This information is made available to increase community safety.
- Locality search
The locality search allows eligible Queensland residents to apply for access to photographs of certain reportable offenders who are recorded as living in the same locality as the applicant at the time of the application.
To apply, Queensland residents must provide evidence of their address using a valid Queensland driver licence or other approved government-issued photographic identification.
- Parent/guardian disclosure applications
The parent/guardian disclosure application enables Queensland parents and guardians to apply for information about whether a person who has, or may have, unsupervised contact (no other adult present) with their child is a current reportable offender.
Applicants must provide evidence that they are the parent or legal guardian of the child or children and will need to explain the type of contact the person has or will have with their child, how often that contact does or will occur, and where.
The only information disclosed to the applicant is whether the person they are asking about is a reportable offender.
Daniel’s Law was created to support families, empower Queenslanders, and provide a clearer pathway to help protect children in our communities.
Once the legislation is in effect, interested persons will be able to access the Missing Reportable Offender webpage and make other disclosure requests via a public community protection website.