RLC in the media

A 22-year-old woman was allegedly strip searched in front of a shop window by two male police officers last month. Ugur Nedim and Sonia Hickey report for Sydney Criminal Lawyers

Sydney Criminal Lawyers spoke to Dr Sentas about the implications of the Rethinking Strip Searches by NSW Police report and why law reform is a necessary component of bringing about a change in police practice and culture. Paul Gregoire reports for Sydney Criminal Lawyers

Deputy coroner urges pill-testing trial, the scrapping of drug detection dogs at festivals and says strip searches should be dramatically curtailed. Michael McGowan reports for The Guardian

Children as young as 12 are being strip searched by police in Australia TV NZ reports

Girls as young as 12 have been strip-searched by the police in Australia’s most populous state in recent years, according to data released on Wednesday. Isabella Kwai reports for The New York Times

Ongoing public scrutiny is shedding much needed light on the highly invasive policing practice of strip-searching. But an important issue is being lost in the current debate – race. Samantha Lee in The Sydney Morning Herald

Sixteen years old, lining up to get into a music festival, separated from friends, taken into a tent and forced to strip. Mia Armitage reports for Echonetdaily

Members of NSW Police are set to be grilled by the state’s law enforcement watchdog over the strip-searching of a 16-year-old girl at Splendour in the Grass. Angus Thompson reports for the Sydney Morning Herald

NSW Police drew their tasers almost 3000 times in the course of duty over the past five years, according to internal police records, with officers logging a mental-health issue in more than 1000 of these cases. Nigel Gladstone reports for The Sydney Morning Herald

If you consent when an officer asks whether you agree to a warrantless search of your person or your vehicle, you’re also providing that the search is legal – regardless of whether the officer follows correct protocol or not. Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim report for Sydney Criminal Lawyers