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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
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
First Nations children - some as young as 11 - strip-searched by NSW police at higher rate, new data reveals
First Nations people in New South Wales are subject to 45 per cent of all "uses...
Dechlan Brennan 25 Sep 2024
Supreme Court sets date for strip search class action against NSW police
The New South Wales Supreme Court has set a date for the strip search class acti...
Dechlan Brennan 18 May 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
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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