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Media Release: Coroner finds strip searches are causing harm and calls for change to the...
8 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coroner finds strip searches are causing harm and calls for change to the law Redfern Legal Centre (RLC)...

Media Release: Young women subjected to traumatic number of unnecessary strip searches
06 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Under access to information laws, Redfern Legal Centre has obtained statistics from NSW Police on the number of...

Media Release: Criminalising wage theft won’t make the problem go away for migrant workers
Criminalising wage theft won’t make the problem go away for migrant workers 4 November 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) has welcomed...

RLC eBulletin: October 2019
Our October e-Bulletin highlights exciting innovations and partnerships that are making it easier for international students and other migrant workers to access legal support. Topics...

Law Enforcement Conduct Commission hearing demonstrates why children should not be strip searched
22 October 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Redfern Legal Centre is calling for urgent reform of strip search law to prevent the strip searching of...

Media Release: Call for NSW Police watchdog to investigate strip search quotas
30 September 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Redfern Legal Centre is calling on the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) to investigate the impact of policing...

RLC eBulletin: August 2019
RLC’s August e-Bulletin outlines findings of a new strip search report from UNSW Law, information and resources to support people who may have been unlawfully...

Media Release: Strip searches are causing harm: Redfern Legal Centre and UNSW stand by report...
29 August 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) and academics from UNSW Law refute comments made by NSW Police Commissioner Michael Fuller questioning...

Media Release: UNSW report reveals extraordinary increase in police strip searches
Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling for immediate amendments to NSW strip-search laws as research reveals an almost twentyfold increase in strip searches in almost...

Media Alert: RLC to launch UNSW report calling for changes to NSW strip-search laws
09 August 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Thursday, 22 August at 10am, Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) will launch a detailed research report examining the...