RLC in the media

A recent 150 page report was released by the LECC into NSW Police strip searches of young people in Sydney.

The Attorney General, Mark Speakman has rejected calls to require police to hand over body-worn video footage.

Sam Lee, Solicitor with the Police Accountability Practice at Redfern Legal Centre speaks to Radio National about the imminent release of the LECC's report into strip searches in NSW.

The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) has made 25 recommendations after on-going investigations into the way police conduct strip searches. Shahni Wellington reports for NITV News

The NSW Greens have introduced a bill in State Parliament to radically reform the use of strip searches and drug detection dogs by NSW Police. David Adams reports for Pedestrian TV.

In the past year, NSW police officers have strip-searched 96 children and more than 20 percent of them were Indigenous.

NSW police are under scrutiny after data obtained by the Redfern Legal Centre shows a rise in strip-searches of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Amelia Tan reports for ABC News

Despite everything else this year has thrown at us, it seems the controversial strip-searching of children by New South Wales’ police continues unabated. As The Guardian’s Michael McGowan has noted, 96 have been searched in 2020, with some as young as eleven.

Disturbing new data from NSW Police shows the deeply invasive – and potentially illegal – practice of strip-searching is still disproportionately targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, some of which are children as young as 11. Michael Di Iorio writes for Pedestrian TV.

Indigenous children continue to be disproportionately targeted with strip-searches, making up about 21 per cent of all people aged between 10 and 17 years old strip-searched in the past financial year. Glen Bartholomew speaks to Police Accountability Solicitor, Samantha Lee, for ABC News Radio.