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Redfern Legal Centre says an investigation by the NSW police watchdog, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC), into police conduct is being undermined by disproportionate and intimidating police arrests.

Redfern Legal Centre is calling on NSW Police to clarify when they stopped pursuing a car in an incident that ultimately ended in the deaths of two people.

Redfern Legal Centre calls on the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force, Mal Lanyon, to stand down officers whose use of force at last Monday’s protest appears excessive, based on the available footage.

Rohan Beck knew it would be tough finding a place to rent in Sydney — but he did not think he would be flatting with a woman who lived in a "shed".

Redfern Legal Centre is calling on the NSW Government to reform the law to ban the strip searching of children unless a court order is obtained. 

The NSW Labor government will continue to use sniffer dogs and strip-searches at music festivals, despite the recommendations of a report it commissioned earlier this year. 

Slater and Gordon priority remains to secure a \settlement between the State of NSW and thousands of festivalgoers in the Strip Search class action. This follows the NSW Supreme Court’s finding that lead plaintiff Raya Meredith’s search was unlawful, a decision the State now intends to appeal.

The NSW Government has rejected a key Drug Summit recommendation to stop using drug dogs and strip searches for drug possession at music festivals during the drug-checking trial.

NSW Police are facing potentially having to pay millions in damages following a landmark ruling in a strip search class action lawsuit.

The state government has lost a landmark case involving the illegal strip search of a woman by NSW Police at a music festival in 2018. Sydney woman Raya Meredith was awarded $93,000 in damages. The case is part of a broader class action which extends to police strip searches at music festivals from 2016.