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Fines and the impact of the recent NSW Supreme Court case (recording)

This is a recording of the RLC webinar in June 2023: Fines and the impact of the recent NSW Supreme Court case.

30 June 2023

Portrait of Redfern Legal Centre senior solicitor Samantha Lee.

RLC in the media

Calls for Victorian government to scrap Covid fines as data shows minority groups more likely to be penalised

Some community leaders say report is evidence of officers targeting people based on their ethnicity, which Victoria police rejects.

27 June 2023

Police officer fines to police car in traffic

RLC in the media

Aboriginal elders support investigation into policing of COVID-19 fines in Walgett

Indigenous community leaders in Walgett in western NSW are supporting calls for an investigation into police enforcement of COVID-19 fines.

10 June 2023

RLC in the media

Don’t turn on police over Taser tragedy, says commissioner

A former senior official at the state’s police watchdog, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC), has warned there are too many failings in a system that relies on police examining the actions of colleagues.

25 May 2023

Group of police in dark blue uniform standing inside with backs to camera watching a group of people protesting outside

RLC in the media

Commission probes use of excessive force by New South Wales police against Indigenous boy

The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) will begin examining the use of force by NSW Police Thursday, along with other systemic issues related to the arrest and detention of children.

25 May 2023

Blurred image of police standing on a road behind a strip of blue and white police tape

Media releases

NSW Police Watch Dog Holds Public Hearing into the Use of Force

Tomorrow (25 May), the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) will examine the use of force by NSW Police, along with systemic issues related to the arrest and detention of children.

24 May 2023

RLC in the media

NSW Police Searches Target the Vulnerable, Report Confirms

Data obtained by Redfern Legal Centre, via the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW), reflects a clear bias involved in the way that NSW police officers are applying personal searches.

21 February 2023

White Police van with blue writing that reads Police Sydney City LAC

RLC in the media

Children searched more than 100,000 times by NSW police

Police are conducting more than 150,000 body searches annually across NSW, with children and Indigenous people more likely to be stopped and interrogated.

13 February 2023

RLC in the media

Pain in Paradise

In 2018, Byron Bay police struck a teenager 18 times with a baton. Five years later courts are still deciding, was it “reasonable”?

21 November 2022

RLC in the media

'Simply unacceptable': Dubbo tops the state for strip searches on Indigenous people

First Nations people in Dubbo were subjected to the highest number of police strip searches in NSW over two year period.

25 August 2022

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Fines and the impact of the recent NSW Supreme Court case (recording)

Calls for Victorian government to scrap Covid fines as data shows minority groups more likely to be penalised

Aboriginal elders support investigation into policing of COVID-19 fines in Walgett

Don’t turn on police over Taser tragedy, says commissioner

Commission probes use of excessive force by New South Wales police against Indigenous boy

NSW Police Watch Dog Holds Public Hearing into the Use of Force

NSW Police Searches Target the Vulnerable, Report Confirms

Children searched more than 100,000 times by NSW police

Pain in Paradise

'Simply unacceptable': Dubbo tops the state for strip searches on Indigenous people

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