The ACT's corruption watchdog found a former territory public servant had engaged in "reprehensible conduct" but the details of the report will remain secret.
The ACT Integrity Commission conducted a confidential investigation relating to a public servant in the Community Services Directorate.
This report found the former employee had engaged in "reprehensible conduct" but was not corrupt.
The existence of the report was revealed after the Legislative Assembly's justice and community safety committee conducted an inquiry into the commission's findings.
The committee published a report but did not reveal any details about the former public servant.
However, the committee's report did reveal the commission's investigation involved a conflict of interest and fraud.
The committee made two recommendations, including the ACT government puts in place measures to ensure people who have had adverse findings from the watchdog are not able to be re-employed in the territory's public service.
"The committee are concerned that, at present, recruitment processes may not sufficiently identify employment candidates who have received adverse findings in confidential Integrity Commission investigations," the committee's report said.
The committee urged the government to ensure measures were added to ACT public service recruitment processes so that people who had adverse findings could be identified.
The committee also urged the Community Services Directorate to consider the sufficiency of its conflict of interest, fraud and anti-corruption controls to prevent corruption arising. This recommendation was also in the ACT Integrity Commission report.
The watchdog's report was kept private to protect the privacy of vulnerable witnesses, the committee said.
"The committee acknowledges this and the circumstances in which that decision was made and has also decided to not divulge details including the [confidential report] that would identity the people involved for the same reasons," the report said.
The ACT Integrity Commission has publicly released six reports since it was established nearly five years ago. There has been one finding of corruption against the former chief executive of the Canberra Institute of Technology Leanne Cover.
She was found guilty of "serious corrupt conduct" under the act for awarding more than $8.5 million in contracts to "complexity and systems thinker" Patrick Hollingworth over five years.
The commission has faced staffing issues with the average tenure for staff during the last annual report being less than 18 months.
Under the commission's act they are unable to employ anyone who was employed in the ACT public service within the last five years. But the Assembly is considering laws to overturn this.
