Raya Meredith was 27 when she was falsely imprisoned by NSW Police and strip searched at the 2018 Splendour in the Grass festival at Byron Bay. "This decision is a reckoning for the NSW Police and Minns government," Greens MP and drug law reform spokesperson Cate Faehrmann said after the decision was handed down. Faced with a class action by 3000 individuals strip searched between 2018 and 2022, Ms Faehrmann said enough was enough. Justice Dina Yehia found in her decision that police had no reasonable basis to use their strip search powers against Ms Meredith after she was sniffed at by a drug detection dog. The judge awarded Ms Meredith $93,000 in damages for the misuse of police powers leading to her assault, battery and false imprisonment.