Deceased
Tyrone Raymond Adams
Demographics
male
Finding date
2021-03-10
AI-generated summary
This judgment concerns procedural disclosure orders in the inquest into Tyrone Adams' death, not substantive coronial findings. Tyrone Adams died following a police pursuit of his vehicle. The coroner's decision addressed whether details of the NSW Police Safe Driving Policy (SDP) should be withheld from publication on public interest grounds. Magistrate Grahame rejected broad public interest immunity claims but made targeted non-publication orders protecting specific operational details (vehicle categories, pursuit termination procedures, tyre deflation device deployment details). The coroner found that most SDP information was either already in the public domain, widely known matters of common sense, or information whose disclosure would not materially affect offender behaviour. The substantive findings on cause of death and whether non-compliance with SDP policies contributed to the death are not included in this judgment.
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