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NSW Supreme Court to Hear COVID-19 Fines Test Case

The heavy force used against the 78-year-old has disturbed many, and on Wednesday about 100 people protested outside Surry Hills police station, calling for the officers involved to be suspended and for an independent investigation.

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

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling on the NSW Government to put an immediate stay on enforcement orders issued to people who have not yet paid their COVID-19 fines.

LECC announced that the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions has laid charges against police officer over the fraud allegations involving fabricating evidence

RLC has lodged a complaint with the LECC following a police interaction with a 14-year-old First Nations boy.

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

Latest NSW Police strip-search figures show that throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of people were still being subjected to strip searches, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and children disproportionately targeted.

Redfern Legal Centre says $20,000 in fines issued is ‘unjust’ and ‘sets children up for failure’

The proceedings will cover all music festival attendees, who’ve registered and been subjected to a suspect strip search at events held in this state since July 2016.