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Media Release: Strip searches are causing harm: Redfern Legal Centre and UNSW stand by report findings

29 August 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

29 August 2019

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RLC in the Media: 21yo Georgia was made to strip naked and squat on her way to a music festival

When Georgia and her friends were driving along the Murray River near border of New South Wales and Victoria, they didn’t expect to come across an army of police. Jessica Staveley reports for Mamamia

28 August 2019

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RLC in the Media: NSW police officers are increasingly conducting 'unlawful' strip searches, experts find

Police officers are increasingly conducting illegal strip searches, a new report has found, and have refused to shed light on specific details about them Gavin Fernando reports for news.com.au

28 August 2019

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RLC in the Media: Strip searches and harm minimisation on ABC's Q&A

Research findings from a UNSW report, commissioned by Redfern Legal Centre, prompted a detailed discussion about police strip searches and harm minimisation on ABC's Q&A. Q&A High School Special Broadcast on ABC TV, 26 August 2019.

27 August 2019

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RLC in the Media: 'Rethinking Strip Searches' on 2ser

2ser speaks to Dr Vicki Sentas, senior lecturer in law at UNSW and one of the co-authors of the Rethinking Strip Searches by NSW Police report about what can be done to make sure that police are not going beyond their powers.

26 August 2019

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'I had done absolutely nothing wrong': Lucy Moore speaks out about being strip searched

On 22 August, Redfern Legal Centre released the report ‘Rethinking Strip Searches by NSW Police’ prepared by Dr Michael Grewcock and Dr Vicki Sentas from the Faculty of Law at UNSW Sydney.

26 August 2019

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RLC in the Media: Strip searches on The Today Show

On Sunday 24 August, Dr Vicki Sentas appreared on the Today Show discussing the rise in potentially unlawful police strip searches and findings of the UNSW report commissioned by RLC, 'Rethinking Stip Searches by NSW Police.'

24 August 2019

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RLC in the Media: Call for strip-search laws to be tightened in Australia

A massive increase in strip-searches by police is causing unnecessary harm and humiliation to people, according to a new report. Madhura Seneviratne and Suni Awasthi report SBS Sinhalese

24 August 2019

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RLC in the Media: The strip search was once a last resort, it is now routine

Despite the police struggling to understand the law (and the effect it can have), strip-searches have increased almost twenty-times over the last decade. Paul Gregoire reports for The Big Smoke

23 August 2019

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RLC in the Media: 'Police strip searches' on Triple j Hack

Police strip-searches and the launch of a new report discussed on the Friday shakeup. Triple j Hack

23 August 2019

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Media Release: Strip searches are causing harm: Redfern Legal Centre and UNSW stand by report findings

RLC in the Media: 21yo Georgia was made to strip naked and squat on her way to a music festival

RLC in the Media: NSW police officers are increasingly conducting 'unlawful' strip searches, experts find

RLC in the Media: Strip searches and harm minimisation on ABC's Q&A

RLC in the Media: 'Rethinking Strip Searches' on 2ser

'I had done absolutely nothing wrong': Lucy Moore speaks out about being strip searched

RLC in the Media: Strip searches on The Today Show

RLC in the Media: Call for strip-search laws to be tightened in Australia

RLC in the Media: The strip search was once a last resort, it is now routine

RLC in the Media: 'Police strip searches' on Triple j Hack

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