GA Corrections POST flashcards
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- Legal authority
- The applicable legal basis permitting a particular act by a particular person under defined circumstances, rather than a general claim of official status.
- Competence
- The legally assigned responsibility or power to deal with a matter, distinguished from familiarity, seniority or possession of relevant information.
- Jurisdiction
- The relevant legal scope of an institution or official, including applicable subject, territorial and procedural limits for the matter.
- Procedural stage
- The point reached in the applicable legal or administrative process, which can affect the available powers, safeguards and decisions.
- Presumption of innocence
- The principle that an allegation is not itself proof of guilt and that the applicable legal burden must be respected.
- Direct observation
- Information personally perceived by the reporting person, distinguished from a statement received from someone else or a later inference.
- Attributed statement
- Information recorded with its actual source identified, allowing a reader to distinguish the account from the recorder own observations.
- Inference
- A conclusion drawn from available information, which should be distinguished from an established observation and evaluated against alternative explanations.
- Chain of custody
- The documented continuity of identification, handling, storage and transfer for an item, supporting evaluation of its integrity and provenance.
- Audit trail
- A traceable record of relevant events and changes, enabling review without falsely presenting a later amendment as an original entry.
- Necessity
- The requirement to connect a proposed action with an actual legitimate need and the applicable conditions rather than mere convenience.
- Proportionality
- Assessment of a measure against its lawful objective and relevant circumstances, including whether the response exceeds what is justified.
- Conflict of interest
- A circumstance where a personal or other competing interest may compromise the proper exercise of an official responsibility or professional judgment.
- Professional integrity
- Honest and accountable performance of the actual role, including accurate records, appropriate boundaries and refusal to conceal material misconduct.
- Safeguarding
- Appropriate action to protect a person from relevant harm, including recognition, communication and escalation within the actual professional role.
- Clinical referral
- A request for assessment or assistance from an appropriately qualified healthcare professional, rather than an unsupported diagnosis by custodial staff.
- Classification
- An assessment used to organize relevant supervision or accommodation needs, which does not remove a person rights or healthcare requirements.
- Authorized movement
- A transfer or change of location supported by the required permission and records, distinguished from an unexplained absence during accountability checks.
- Court condition
- A requirement imposed through the actual court process, whose wording and application should not be silently replaced by an officer preference.
- Reintegration
- Support for a person lawful return to community life through appropriate opportunities and services under the relevant custodial or supervision framework.