RLC in the media

Complaints of alleged ‘online abuse’ by NSW Police towards Greens MP Jenny Leong have been made to the Police Integrity Commission. 14 April 2016 - Alt Media Christopher Harris

City of Sydney Council has proposed the scrapping of 62 of the 399 alcohol-free zones (AFZs) across the City of Sydney's local government area. In response to NSW Police Force's objections, Redfern Legal Centre's police powers solicitor David Porter spoke to The Daily Telegraph about the benefit of removing AFZs.

A renewed push for the New South Wales Police pursuit policy to be reviewed has been put forward by legal advocates in the wake of a fatal police chase in Sydney's west. The call comes after the death of three women in their 20s at Marayong in Sydney's West on Saturday when the car they were in crashed, seconds into a pursuit.

RLC senior solicitor David Porter was interviewed by ABC Radio regarding the delay in updating the NSW Police Force's Safe Driving Policy, having recently represented the family of a young man who died in the course of a high-speed police pursuit at a coronial inquest.

RLC CEO Jo Shulman speaks with National Indigenous Radio Service about what RLC's funding crisis will mean for Indigenous communities in Redfern and surrounding service areas.

May 2015 - Australasian Lawyer Samantha Woodhill The 2014 Productivity Commission inquiry into access to justice recommended an additional $200m in funding for community legal centres, but the latest federal budget will force centres to endure further funding cuts.

'One of the nation's busiest community legal centres is on the verge of cutting half its staff.'

Community legal centres around Australia will no longer have their budgets slashed by $25.5 million over the next two years, federal Attorney General George Brandis announced last week in a reversal of cuts handed down in the 2014 budget.

Watch the story of Melissa Dunn and her treatment by the NSW Police Force on the ABC website. March 2015 - ABC 7:30 Report

The new consorting provisions, introduced into the Crimes Act in 2012, allow police to label otherwise lawful associations a crime and to prosecute on that simple basis. The consorting provisions lack appropriate definitions, restrictions, and standards.