Please contact the New South Wales Department of Communities & Justice, Open Government, Information and Privacy Unit:
Phone: (02) 9716 2662
Email: infoandprivacy@dcj.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://dcj.nsw.gov.au/about-us/gipa/apply-online-to-access-information.html
Quote this number to access your records: State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number, NRS-22856; RNGC-5051
These records are held by State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (June 1961 - current).
These are records created by Mount Penang Training School for Boys, Gosford, and held by Museums of History NSW (State Archives). The collection includes case files for boys in detention at Mount Penang, as well as a series of as-yet unprocessed files.
Access to these records is currently restricted. In New South Wales, records relating to individuals, such as case files and correspondence are closed to public access for 100 years. Records such as registers and indexes are closed to public access for 80 years.
People wishing to access records about themselves will need to submit a GIPA (Government Information Public Access) form to the Department of Communities and Justice Open Government, Information and Privacy unit.
The following information about these records has been published in the State Archives catalogue: