NSW Police announced a shift in drug dog deployment from targeting music festival attendees to focusing on drug suppliers at train stations and parks. The announcement comes after years of advocacy from legal and human rights groups questioning whether the dogs effectively distinguish between users and traffickers.
Pending class action could lead to $150m in damages The judge reserved a decision on how much the state should also have to pay in additional exemplary damages because senior police failed to ensure officers were adequately trained to conduct strip searches, saying it would be better assessed after all the class action members had their claims determined.
Only in NSW are music festival attendees harassed like this.
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NSW Police announced a shift in drug dog deployment from targeting music festival attendees to focusing on drug suppliers at train stations and parks. The announcement comes after years of advocacy from legal and human rights groups questioning whether the dogs effectively distinguish between users and traffickers.
I didn't hear about this from other sources. Maybe some people don't want this news to spread.
There's a massive pending class action that NSW Police is likely to lose relating to sniffer dogs at music festivals, so they seem to be trying to get ahead of it:
Only in NSW are music festival attendees harassed like this.