What is the Public Child Sex Offender Register?

The Community Protection and Public Sex Offender Register was created by the Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel's Law) Act 2025 and is part of the Queensland Government’s suite of Making Queensland Safer Laws. The Public Child Sex Offender Register is administered by the Queensland Police Service under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004.

For the first time ever in Queensland, this legislation allows parents and guardians of children, and members of the public, to access certain information about reportable offenders held on Queensland’s Child Protection Register. To find out more about the Child Protection Register, which is a non-public register, including who is a reportable offender, click here.

Who can access information and what information people can access differ depending on the type of disclosure?

There are three types of disclosures (sometimes referred to as ‘Tiers’) allowed under the act:

1. Photographs and certain personal details of reportable offenders who have breached their reporting obligations and whose whereabouts are unknown to the Queensland Police Service can be published to a web page on this website for any person to access. This is the 'Missing Reportable Offenders Webpage'.

2. If you are a Queensland resident, you can apply to access photographs of certain reportable offenders who are recorded as living in your residential locality at the time you apply. This is a 'Locality Search'.

3. If you are a parent or guardian of children living in Queensland, you can apply to find out whether a person who has or may have unsupervised contact with your child or children is a current reportable offender. This is the 'Parents and Guardians Disclosure Scheme'.

Under the legislation, the Queensland Police Service must take a range of factors into consideration before disclosing information, with the overall aim of protecting children at the centre of that decision.

Missing Reportable Offenders Webpage

The Missing Reportable Offenders Webpage can be accessed by anyone. You will not need any identification to visit this page.

If a reportable offender fails to meet any of their reporting obligations under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004 and their whereabouts are unknown to police, the following information will be published on the Missing Reportable Offenders Webpage:

• the reportable offender’s most recent photograph
• their full name and any aliases they may use
• their year of birth
• a 'QP number' – this is a reference number you can provide to Policelink if you have any information about this person.

A specialist team of Queensland police will continue to actively search to locate any reportable offenders who are published to this page. Reportable offenders will only be published to this page after a range of activities have been undertaken to locate them. Reportable offender images and personal information will be removed from the web page as soon as possible after the police have located them.

You can visit the Missing Reportable Offender Webpage here.

Locality Search

Queensland residents can apply to have access to the photographs of certain reportable offenders who report living in the applicant’s residential locality. No other information is supplied for this search – only the reportable offender’s photograph.

The Locality Search is limited to reportable offenders who are considered to pose the greatest risk of reoffending against children based on the length of their reporting obligations and known repeat offending against children. Reportable offenders covered in the Locality Search include those who:

• are repeat child sex offenders, meaning they have committed another reportable offence after receiving their Initial Reporting Obligations Notice;
• must report to the Queensland Police Service for the remainder of their life (life-long reportable offenders);
• are subject to a supervision order or interim supervision order made under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003; or
• the Police Commissioner considers pose a serious risk to the lives or sexual safety of a child or children generally.

If any photographs are provided to an applicant, they will be based on information available to the Queensland Police Service at the time the application was made. While reportable offenders must report changes in address to police, under section 19A of the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004, they have 7 days to report this change.

You can apply for a Locality Search here.

Parents and Guardians Disclosure

The Parents and Guardians Disclosure Scheme aims to help parents and guardians to be better informed about people who have or may have unsupervised contact with their child, helping them to make protective decisions.

This scheme allows the Queensland Police Service to disclose to eligible applicants whether the person they have nominated on their application is a current reportable offender under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004 or is subject to a supervision order or interim supervision order made under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003.

Under this type of disclosure, you can make an application if you:

• are a parent or guardian living in Queensland who has ongoing parental responsibility for a child (17 years or under); and
• have identified an adult (referred to as a ‘nominated person’) who has or will have ‘unsupervised contact’ with a child or children under your care.

During the application process, you will need to supply certain documents to assist the Queensland Police Service in assessing your application. The information that we will need is explained during the application process.

Each Parents and Guardians Disclosure application is assessed by a member of the Child Protection Disclosure Scheme. The length of time it takes to return a response will be dependent on the number of applications received and the complexity of the individual application.

What information will applications receive under the Parents and Guardians Disclosure Scheme?

If you are eligible to receive information under the Parents and Guardians Disclosure Scheme, you will receive a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. If you receive a ‘yes’ answer, this means the person you nominated as having unsupervised contact with your child or children is a current reportable offender under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004 or is subject to a supervision order or interim supervision order made under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003.

No other information about the nominated person will be provided. For example, we cannot provide any information about the type of reportable offence the person was convicted of or when the offence occurred.

A ‘no’ response simply means that the nominated person does not currently have any reporting obligations under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004 or is subject to a supervision order or interim supervision order made under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003.

A ‘no’ response does not mean that a nominated person does not pose a risk to a child or children in general; it simply means the person does not currently have reporting obligations.

Access information on safeguarding children here to help identify other actions you can take or resources you can access to reduce the risk to children in your care.

Parents and Guardians Disclosure applications may trigger police inquiries

The protection of children is central to Daniel’s Law. Applications made under the Parents and Guardians Disclosure may trigger inquiries by police to make sure a nominated person does not pose a risk to children. For example, the police may need to make enquiries if the nominated person is not a current reportable offender but has a history of child sex offences. Any inquiries undertaken by the police will continue even if an application is withdrawn during the process.

You can make a Parents and Guardians Disclosure application here.