RLC in the media

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling on the NSW Police to release its internal operating procedures on steps to apply when beginning an investigation into an alleged sexual assault. Kerry Smith reports for Green Left Weekly.

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.