Media releases

8 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coroner finds strip searches are causing harm and calls for change to the law

06 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Criminalising wage theft won’t make the problem go away for migrant workers 4 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

22 October 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

30 September 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

29 August 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling for immediate amendments to NSW strip-search laws as research reveals an almost twentyfold increase in strip searches in almost 12 years.

09 August 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Thursday, 22 August at 10am, Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) will launch a detailed research report examining the use of police strip-search powers in New South Wales.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) supports the New South Wales Coroner’s call for NSW Police to release its strip search protocols, but says its own recent application under freedom of information seeking Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to guide police strip searches found no such materials.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling on the Deputy State Coroner Harriet Graham to refer any police officer that may have used a strip search as a form of intimidation or threat to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) for investigation, and to the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to assess whether a criminal prosecution, such as an assault charge, may apply.