Posts tagged with ‘Human Rights Charter’

There have been a series of reviews and inquiries into Victoria Police over the past two decades. They have…

Phi Finney McDonald and Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre’s Police Accountability Project are investigating a potential class action against…

IBAC Commissioner, The Honourable Robert Redlich AM, QC, has made the strongest calls yet for adequate government resourcing of…

Victoria requires a fully independent system to investigate serious incidents of alleged police misconduct, human rights abuses and complaints.

We…

These new Stage 4 restrictions in Victoria are important to slow the spread of COVID 19 and we recommend…

The stories coming through the covidpolicing website only give us snapshots of what is going on, but these sometimes…

New technologies such as facial recognition, video surveillance systems, body worn cameras, automatic number plate recognition and social media…

The IBAC have released a summary of findings into its inquiry about serious injuries caused by police in a…

As Victoria escalates its crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Victoria Police must ensure its police responses are aligned…

Australia’s first police complaints chatbot has been launched by Josef Legal, Robinson Gill and ourselves to help people…

Dear Premier,

In light of yet more shocking revelations in the national media about the abject failure of the…

The Victorian Government must, as a matter of urgency, resource a body separate from police to independently investigate all…

In refusing to strike out Smith’s claim, the court has accepted that it is arguable police could owe a…

Four years ago, human rights, legal and social justice organisations called upon the Victorian Government to respond decisively…

Anti-association laws like this criminalise entire communities and entire generations. They send the visceral and racist message that these…

The Parliamentary Inquiry examining how police complaints about misconduct and corruption are handled in Victoria was due to report…

Commentators such as Jon Faine on ABC Melbourne have pointed out that previous attempts taken in Victoria to independently…

An avalanche of news stories from people who have experienced excessive force, racist policing or other police misconduct, and…

The Audit of Victoria Police’s oversight of serious incidents (27 March 2018) has been described as ‘damning’ and ‘scathing’…