Flash Mob For Your Rights!

By admin | Published: June 12, 2010

The Legislation Committee will be handing down their findings on stop and search laws on June 17. So get ready to flash…mob! (No actual flashing please: stripping is reserved for real police searches only!)

To show your disgust at these proposed laws, come down to Murray St Mall and be prepared to “spread ‘em” against a wall once the whistles start going. We will be demonstrating what will occur if these laws are passed: people stopped in the middle of going about their daily business for no reason at all and searched.

Things that WE WON’T be doing but MAY OCCUR IF “stop and search” laws are passed:

  • Harassing you
  • Stripping you
  • Fondling you
  • Taking you away to a police station for failure to produce ID
  • Searching you without consent
  • Banning you from public places

These are all things that Search For Your Rights’ Rights Police won’t do but will occur if these laws are passed.

Details will be given closer to the day – mark yourself attending on the facebook event page to be kept in the loop.

We will also be on hand to answer questions about your rights. Please come and talk to us- once we’ve got our policeman hats off, of course.

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  • We want your help to stop the Criminal Investigation Amendment Bill 2009. This Bill is currently under review in the Legislation Committee, and will be brought before parliament in early 2010.

    If passed, these “stop and search” laws will remove one of your basic civil rights.  Currently if a cop wants to search you, the police officer must be able to show they had ‘reasonable suspicion’ that you may be concealing objects pertaining to a crime.

    This legislation proposes to remove the requirement of reasonable suspicion.

    Removing the need for reasonable suspicion opens the door for unreasonable searches.

    If this law passes, you can be searched in whatever area the police commissioner decides needs to be targeted.

    There will be no parliamentary overview - and no legal defence for victims.  Perth, Northbridge, Fremantle and wherever else the Commissioner decides will turn into police-run zones where you can be stopped, searched, stripped and scrutinised at the whim of whoever is on patrol.

    We respect police, and we understand that they have a difficult job.  However, these laws will not increase safety.

    Instead they will push the problem into different areas, decrease respect for police, and find nothing that the police do not already have the powers to find.

    Are you ready to have your rights sacrificed for nothing?

    You can help to stop this legislation!

    • Write letters and emails to the Premier Colin Barnett, the Police Minister Rob Johnson or to your local MP. Click on the VOICE YOUR VIEWS link to see the addresses you can send your email to, or if you’re in a hurry send our form letter.
    • Draft a submission to the Legislation Committee.  Click LEGISLATION COMMITTEE to see how you can do this, and a draft of the submission on behalf of Search For Your Rights.
    • Be informed about your legal rights and opposition to the bill. Click YOUR RIGHTS in the menu for links to Legal Services Australia, and WORK TOGETHER for other groups who oppose this legislation.
    • STAY POSTED for future actions, protests and movements.

    Search for your rights!