This report presents a summary of the Justice, Integrity and Community Safety Committee’s (the committee’s) examination of the Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Bill 2025. The objectives of the Bill are to: 

• increase community awareness by giving parents and carers access to information to help protect children via a three-tiered public register under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2024.
• guard against misuse of offender information.

There is currently no publicly accessible information or register that provides information about child sex offenders in Queensland. The public child sex offender register proposed in the Bill is broadly modelled on the Western Australia public notification scheme and Community Protection website which has been operating since 2012.

The committee recommends that the Bill be passed. 

Key issues raised

• Operation of the new public child sex offender register
• Administration of the register
• Judicial review
• Protection against vigilantism
• Statutory review
• National approaches.