Authorization on Search portlet

Hello,
Is it possible to authorize an auto query custom search portlet?
I want to show the results of this query only to some users.
Thanks,
Ton

I know the various search portlets only show results of items of which users have sufficient rights.
But I want to use search portlets to show public items to a certain group.
Say, I have lots of news items, which are all available to all employees of a company. These items have perspectives which are the same of the departments. So, some of the items have the perspective Sales, others have Human Resource.
For each department, I'd like to create an autoquery custom search, which shows only the items with the perspective of the department, and place this portlet on the home page. To show only 'their' news items, I need to limit the viewing of this search portlet to a specific group (department).
It's Okay if these users find others news items when using other search portlets (simple search, advanced search) or simply by navigating to the 'news' page.
Ton

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