Former NSW Labor minister and child sex offender Milton Orkopoulos has been granted parole after a government authority found keeping him jailed for the rest of his sentence was likely to "increase the risk to the community safety."

The 62-year-old, who served as the Aboriginal affairs minister under then-premier Morris Iemma, plied multiple young, male victims with cannabis, heroin and alcohol before sexually abusing them between 1995 and his arrest in 2006.

State Parole Authority chair, Justice James Wood, said Orkopoulos's release after 11½ years in prison was in the interests of the community and that keeping him locked up for the entirety of his term of 13 years and eight months would deprive him of the psychological support he needed.

"The breach of trust and misuse of the position that the offender held in the community was egregious and has had a serious and profound impact on the confidence and security of all involved, which might well be revived by knowledge of his release," Justice Wood said.