THE Crime and Misconduct Commission's information manager was too stressed about looming job cuts to tell his superiors he'd made another mistake over the release of sensitive Fitzgerald inquiry documents.
In February 2012, director of information management Peter Duell mistakenly lifted the 65-year publication ban on 741 documents from the 1980s inquiry into police corruption.
Some contained intelligence reports, surveillance logs and names of targets and it was feared informants could be hunted down.
Mr Duell told a public hearing into the bungle that he wasn't familiar with the documents and believed they contained benign information.
He thought those that were sensitive had a 100-year ban.
Mr Duell told former chair Ross Martin that the problem had been fixed in May, but it came to light in September that sensitive information was still available.
"I had made a big mistake," he said.
"I hadn't cleaned it up correctly."
Mr Duell said he had requested leave in September because he was upset his department had been "cut to the bone" and was again being targeted for further cuts.
Acting Parliamentary Commissioner Peter Davis SC put it to Mr Duell that he didn't relay his second error to his superiors because he wanted to save his own skin.
"No, not at all," Mr Duell said.
"I wasn't thinking about my job at that point in time, that it was going to be in jeopardy, but there were certainly staff within information management that had to leave and they did."
Mr Duell also admitted that he hadn't taken steps to remove from public access metadata - indexes on the files - which were also found to contain controversial information.
State Archivist Janet Prowse told the hearing that metadata was still available online in July.
"A researcher with basic web searching skills would be able to find and locate the metadata," she said.
Ms Prowse said that since 2007 she had processed 8.9 kilometres of records and the CMC bungle was the first of its kind.
The Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee, which oversees the CMC and is holding the public hearing, is due to report on the bungle on April 5.
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