ICAC Public Integrity Survey 2021: Local Government Integrity Insights
- Report length
- 52 pages
Summary
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South Australia’s Independent Commission Against Corruption examined local government responses to its public integrity survey.
ICAC Public Integrity Survey 2021 – Local Government Integrity Insights, page 4
The voluntary survey received 1114 responses from local government public officers and asked about perceived risks, experiences and reporting.
ICAC Public Integrity Survey 2021 – Local Government Integrity Insights, page 6
The Commission reported lower perceived corruption than in its earlier survey, with recruitment favouritism still seen as the leading risk.
ICAC Public Integrity Survey 2021 – Local Government Integrity Insights, page 4
The Commission recommended further training, clearer employment decisions, controls on outside employment, scrutiny of contracts and protection for people reporting concerns.
ICAC Public Integrity Survey 2021 – Local Government Integrity Insights, page 42
In the body's own words
- Recommendation
All public officers should feel safe to report.
ICAC Public Integrity Survey 2021 – Local Government Integrity Insights, page 42
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
No findings or recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.
Published responses
No published response was found.
Coverage
This publisher
- Office for Public Integrity: publishes only its annual reports (excluded); no OPI report or statement records.
- Since October 2021 the Commission does not make findings of corrupt conduct; most records have no findings.
- Government and agency responses are recorded only where the Commission's page links them or the report reproduces them; implementation status is not published by the Commission as structured data.
- Scanned reports without a text layer are not read (no OCR); their recommendations stay not_extracted.
- Recommendations are extracted only from numbered 'Recommendation N' lists; reports that set out recommendations in prose, tables or unnumbered lists keep recommendations_status not_extracted.
- Findings are extracted only from investigation reports that state them in the Commissioner's own words (Oakden 2018, Gillman 2015); public statements are not read for findings.