Victoria’s Mental Health Complaints Commissioner (MHCC) is fighting an order to release recommendations on how it was dealing with major problems within the state service.
The latest move comes after a June report (pdf) found local Victorians had suffered “gross human rights violations” during mental health treatments that were often conducted against their will.
Mental health advocate Simon Katterl sought the release of documentation between 2015 and 2020 in a freedom of information request made last year.
The Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC)—the state’s information watchdog that subsequently issued the order—said it was in the public interest that the recommendations were released….