News and Events

18 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Redfern Legal Centre backs call to use strip searches for knife offences

On Tuesday 26 November, Redfern Legal Centre will be holding a free panel discussion about the use of police powers in NSW.

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

11 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NSW Police Release Sniffer Dog Procedures

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

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

8 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coroner finds strip searches are causing harm and calls for change to the law

06 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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