Archive of posts in the 'Policing and Detention' category
PIAC’s submission in response to the AHRC Consultation Paper on the implementation of OPCAT in Australia identifies a range of...
In this edition: NSW AG steps in to fill federal funding gap; Calls for national action on youth justice; Voting...
In 2016 PIAC was engaged to represent the First Peoples Disability Network (Australia) (FPDN) before the Royal Commission into the...
PIAC has successfully settled civil proceedings against NSW police and Juvenile Justice NSW on behalf of a young man who...
The Australian Human Rights Commission is currently considering how the special needs and interests of children and young people under...
A glitch in the police computer system is resulting in dozens of people on bail being wrongfully arrested. Robert Ovadia...
PIAC and Maurice Blackburn, who are jointly acting in a class action on behalf of young people allegedly wrongfully arrested...
PIAC has welcomed the independent review of the oversight mechanisms for the NSW Police Force, being conducted by Mr Andrew...
Congratulations to everyone involved in the development of the Legal Information Portal for Prisoners, which won a ‘Working Collaboratively’ Award...
The NSW Coroner’s Court has found today that the ‘availability of illicit substances in correctional facilities is an endemic problem’....
