Oral question AQO 3542/22-27

Oral question by Ms Cara Hunter on 30 April 2026.

MLA: Ms Cara Hunter
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 30 April 2026
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 3542/22-27
Department: Department of Justice
Business: To the Minister of Justice
Assembly identifier: Document 482568

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Text

To ask the Minister of Justice to outline any engagement she has had with parents who have concerns about sex offenders in their communities.

24 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

These were assessed together with this record:

12 May 2026 – The issue comes to my office almost weekly. Recently, I spoke with a mother: she has five young children and lives in a…

Assessment

Not flagged

Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.

Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.12 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.86).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.97).
Subject area: Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues.
The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging threshold.

This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.

Jev’s structured answers

Probability that each statement is true of this text (0 = no, 1 = yes). A criterion counts as met at 0.60 or above.
Question	Probability	Met?
Identity framing	0.05	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.04	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.07	No
Controversy escalation	0.05	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.86	Yes
Overall judgement	0.12	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.97
Reports or questions it	0.01
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.02

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.52
No identity-related subject	0.40
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.06
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.01
Another identity-related subject	0.01

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:36 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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