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Media release: Call for investigation into NSW Police Internal Child Protection Policy & Practice
06 April 2022

Wednesday, 06 April 2022 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media release: NSW Police Safe Driving policy remains ‘shrouded in secrecy’ despite tragic deaths
21 February 2022

Monday 21 February 2022 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media release: Over $2.1 million in COVID-19 fines issued to children
16 December 2021

Thursday, 16 December 2021 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media release: Class action being investigated over unlawful police searches at Splendour in the Grass music festivals
16 November 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | 16 November 2021

Media release: ‘We cannot fine our way out of the pandemic’: Legal profession calls on NSW Premier to revoke unlawful COVID-19 fines
16 September 2021

THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2021 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RLC media release: Call to revoke unlawfully issued COVID fines
25 August 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | 25 August 2021

Media Release: A need for greater police caution in response to COVID-19 public health order breaches
13 August 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | 13 AUGUST 2021

Media Alert: Redfern Legal Centre sheds light on COVID-19 lockdown rules
15 July 2021

Friday, 15 July 2021 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RLC Media Release: We need fewer fines and more compassion in response to COVID police hits in south-western Sydney
09 July 2021

Friday, 09 July 2021 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media release: Redfern Legal Centre calls on NSW Police to release Alleged Sexual Assault Investigation Guidelines
08 March 2021

RLC is calling on NSW Police to release internal operating procedures guiding investigations into alleged...

RLC Media Release: Law Enforcement Conduct Commission strip search report calls for urgent reform
15 December 2020

TUESDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2020 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RLC media release: It’s time to reform strip search law
07 December 2020

7 DECEMBER 2020 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RLC Media Release: Dramatic rise in police strip searches on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during COVID-19
02 November 2020

MONDAY, 02 NOVEMBER 2020 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Release: Class actions to hold NSW Police accountable for widespread unlawful strip search tactics
27 May 2020

Redfern Legal Centre and Slater and Gordon | Joint Media Release

27 May 2020 | FOR...

RLC Media Release: Police training will not stem the flow of unlawful strip searches
08 May 2020

8 May 2020 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RLC Media Release: Greater transparency needed around fines policing public health
08 April 2020

Guidance to NSW Police issuing COVID-19 public health fines must be made public and fines should not be...

RLC Media Release: Strip Search Targets: Call to Audit the NSW Police Quota System
13 February 2020

13 February 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Release: The voices of young people silenced after strip search inquiry cut short
06 February 2020

06 February 2020 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Release: Redfern Legal Centre backs call to use strip searches for knife offences
18 November 2019

18 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Redfern Legal Centre backs...

Media Release: NSW Police Release Sniffer Dog Procedures
11 November 2019

11 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NSW Police Release Sniffer Dog...

Media Release: Coroner finds strip searches are causing harm and calls for change to the law
08 November 2019

8 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Coroner finds strip searches are causing harm...

Media Release: Young women subjected to traumatic number of unnecessary strip searches
06 November 2019

06 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Law Enforcement Conduct Commission hearing demonstrates why children should not be strip searched
22 October 2019

22 October 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Release: Call for NSW Police watchdog to investigate strip search quotas
30 September 2019

30 September 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Release: Strip searches are causing harm: Redfern Legal Centre and UNSW stand by report findings
29 August 2019

29 August 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Release: UNSW report reveals extraordinary increase in police strip searches
21 August 2019

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling for immediate amendments to NSW strip-search laws as research...

Media Release: Protocols to guide police strip searches may not exist
19 July 2019

Media Release: Redfern Legal Centre calls on NSW Police to immediately release internal police document reportedly outlining breaches of strip-search laws
24 June 2019

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling for the immediate release of an internal police document that...

Media Release: Police reported admission that strip search powers are being breached
23 June 2019

Redfern Legal Centre calls for immediate action on strip search laws, following the reported admission by...

Media Release: Legal Profession Calls on Police Minister to Address Strip Searches As New Figures Reveal Almost 300 Children Have Been Strip Searched
03 June 2019

4 June 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Alert: Panel Discussion: Does NSW Have a Strip Search Problem?
17 May 2019

This Thursday, 16 May at 6pm, Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is hosting a free panel discussion on strip...

RLC Media Release: Commuters subjected to another police search operation at Central Station
03 May 2019

‘Privacy screens’ have once again been erected at Central Station in a high foot traffic area at...

Media Release: Redfern Legal Centre concerned about police search operation at a public train station
14 March 2019

Redfern Legal Centre has raised grave concerns about increased police strip search activity in NSW,...

Media Release: Redfern Legal Centre launches campaign to stop strip searches
18 December 2018

On Wednesday 19 December, Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) launches ‘Safe & Sound’ – a campaign that seeks...

Media Release: A Call to End Predictive Policing Targeting Children as Young as Ten
22 August 2018

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling for an end to a New South Wales policing practice known as the...

RLC Media Release: Offensive language arrest found to be unlawful; court rules that police provoked student with “unjustified interference with civil liberties”
20 November 2017

On 20 November 2017 the District Court held that an arrest for the statement “none of your fucking...

Media Release: RLC and UNSW Law Join Forces on Police Accountability in NSW
23 June 2015

23 June 2015

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) and UNSW Law today announced that the RLC Police Powers...

Media Release: Death in custody prompts recommendations to police and Corrective Services
14 February 2013

The State Coroner has released her recommendations following the conclusion of the Le Marseny inquest...