Indigenous children continue to be disproportionately targeted with strip-searches, making up about 21 per cent of all people aged between 10 and 17 years old strip-searched in the past financial year.
The police data, obtained under freedom of information laws by the Redfern Legal Centre and seen by SBS News, shows 96 children were strip-searched in 2019-20, representing 2.5 per cent of the total number of people searched during the year.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 20 per cent of all children searched, up from 13 per cent the previous year.
Seven strip searches…
