Strip Searching
The NSW Greens are ramping up their bid to get the government to fuck right off with their invasive strip searches and problematic sniffer dog policy, slapping a bill down on the state parliament’s table today that would trigger sweeping reforms. Just days after startling revelations that 96 kids were strip-searched in NSW over the […]
WARNING: This article contains graphic content A police inquest carried out by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) has found that four strip searches, conducted by NSW police on people under the age of 18, at Splendour in the Grass and Lost City music festivals in 2018 and 2019 respectively, were “unlawful”. As the ABC […]
Content warning: this article discusses graphic content. New South Wales Police have confirmed that 11 children were strip searched without a parent or guardian present at under 18s music festival Good Life, Lost City at Sydney Olympic Park over the weekend. As ABC reports, of 44 teenagers searched at the festival, 11 were strip searched without […]
Content warning: this article discusses graphic content NSW’s Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) has today begun a five-day hearing into conduct by NSW Police at an underage music festival in Sydney earlier this year, and has found some disturbing results, as reported by ABC News. At least 25 people under the age of 18 were strip […]
Data obtained under freedom of information laws has revealed the shocking reality that over 120 underage girls – some as young as 12 years old – have been strip searched by NSW Police since 2016. In an exclusive report by The Guardian, it has been revealed that the Redfern Legal Centre obtained the data under FOI […]
A New South Wales police officer has admitted that 19 strip searches he conducted over two days at Splendour in the Grass in 2018 may have been illegal, during questioning at the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission’s investigation into possible misconduct around strip search powers by NSW police. The senior constable said that while police had a […]
Redfern Legal Centre has launched a new campaign to prevent the high number of strip searches NSW police are conducting, at music festivals and otherwise. The campaign, titled ‘Safe & Sound’, launches during the Summer festival season which is around the bloody corner, and it is seeking the support of major Aussie artists. The extensive […]
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