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Real-Time Offence Reporting

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 16 Aug 2026 · first seen 19 Aug 2026

a mechanism that links the card system to police and regulatory bodies to instantly detect and act on disqualifying offences

The stories behind this signal

across press, releases & commentary · links open at the source

Govt releaseACT Party \\ \\ **Press Release**\\ \\ **ACT will introduce smarter screening to improve child safety**\\ \\ ****Karen… ACT Party · 18 AugRead ↗

Sample framings

Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.

act-party Right

immediate response to emerging threats

\\ \\ **Press Release**\\ \\ **ACT will introduce smarter screening to improve child safety**\\ \\ ****Karen Chhour****\\ \\ 18 Aug 2026\\ \\ ACT will campaign on introducing the Working with Children Card, a streamlined system for ensuring that any person who works with children has been properly vetted and is checked continuously for safety, says ACT’s Children spokesperson Karen Chhour.\\ \\ **Read More**

18 Aug

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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