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Strip search class action against NSW police set to begin
A class action over the lawfulness of strip searches carried out by NSW Police a...
Dechlan Brennan 2 May 2025
NSW government redirecting repayment of "invalid" COVID fines back to itself
Despite withdrawing over 23,000 invalid fines issued during the pandemic, the Ne...
Dechlan Brennan 29 Nov 2024
All COVID-19 fines to be withdrawn in NSW; millions to be refunded
More than 23,000 fines from the lockdowns during the pandemic will be withdrawn...
Dechlan Brennan 26 Nov 2024
New data reveals NSW Police average more than a 100 strip searches at train stations per year
New South Wales Police have strip searched nearly 900 people at train stations s...
Dechlan Brennan 22 Oct 2024
Officers 'breached right to silence' of Indigenous man in botched arrest
Police officers lacked common sense and basic respect for fairness by continuing...
Luke Costin 21 Oct 2024
Indigenous children as young as 11 strip searched by NSW police

A new report has outlined an alarming tendency by New South Wales police to strip search children, with Indigenous kids as young as 11 being subjected to the procedure over the past seven years.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 19, 2024
'There need to be consequences for actions' : Legal groups condemn NSW police after guilty officer keeps job

Legal groups in NSW say they are concerned a police officer found guilty of assaulting an Indigenous teenager is still employed in the organisation, arguing it highlights a broader lack of accountabil...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 22, 2024
NSW premier claims police not to blame for Indigenous incarceration

The New South Wales Premier has defended the way police have interacted with young Indigenous people, despite a number of scathing reports in recent months by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (L...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 28, 2023
Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT calls for urgent action on police violating right to silence

The Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) has called for urgent action by NSW Police and Attorney General in the wake of an independent inquiry finding "a systemic problem" around police interviewing vul...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 13, 2023
Redfern Legal Centre lawyer calls for systematic reform of NSW Police following Operation Mantus report

The plain clothed officer who tackled a 14-year-old First Nations child to the ground, causing them to sustain serious head injuries, should be referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions, says th...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 13, 2023
Closing the Gap targets would lead to “competing duties": NSW Police Commissioner

A new report from the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) has highlighted the need for the NSW police to do more to reduce the large overrepresentation of First Nations people in the justice sys...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 25, 2023
Data shows NSW police use force against Indigenous people at “vastly disproportionate rate”

New South Wales police used force toward Aboriginal people at a vastly disproportionate rate compared to non-Indigenous people, new data has shown.

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Dechlan Brennan Aug 1, 2023
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