An SES volunteer who was a support person for minors being strip-searched at a NSW festival has agreed he wasn't fully aware of their legal rights.
A Sydney SES volunteer who witnessed searches at an underage music festival has agreed he wasn't fully aware of the rights of the young people involved when he acted as their support person.
He told a hearing of the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission on Thursday that when he got to the venue he was asked if he would object to witnessing searches.He said he didn't anticipate that might involve strip searches until the first one, telling the commission it had been a"shock". The man said he'd been present for about six searches at the festival but he couldn't recall if they were all strip-searches.
Another strip-search was stopped when a tablet or some substance was revealed in the person's personal possessions, the volunteer said.The commission is considering the cases of three people who were strip-searched at the underage festival and the lawfulness and reasonableness of strip-search practices more generally.
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