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Coronavirus fines totalling $2.3 million have been issued to teenagers in Victoria, prompting renewed calls for the penalties to be waived to avoid unnecessarily dragging young people into the justice system.
Data from the Department of Justice and Community Safety shows that to December 15 last year, 1560 COVID-19-related fines were issued to Victorians aged under 18, raising concerns young people and their families will be unable to pay sums that can run to more than $1600.
Victoria Police issue pandemic-related fines at a refugee rights protest in Preston earlier this year.
Community legal practitioners working with young people who were fined say the âexcessiveâ penalties are in some cases 10 times higher than what minors would normally receive for offences in the Childrenâs Court, for what were in many cases inadvertent breaches.
City of Melbourne threatens to fine protesters for excessive noise
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The City of Melbourne has been threatening to fine people protesting against the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers under bylaws designed to stop buskers disturbing the peace.
Victoria Police officers have worked with council officers to penalise the protesters under a little-known bylaw that restricts the use of excessive noise that is capable of interfering with the reasonable comfort of any person who may be in the vicinity of [a] public place .