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Ke­jan Haynes

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi is de­fend­ing the con­tin­ued use of vir­tu­al court ap­pear­ances at po­lice sta­tions, in­sist­ing the prac­tice is legal­ly ground­ed, care­ful­ly reg­u­lat­ed, and es­sen­tial to de­liv­er­ing jus­tice ef­fi­cient­ly. He warned against what he called a carte blanche re­jec­tion of the sys­tem, call­ing such crit­i­cisms ill-in­formed and po­ten­tial­ly harm­ful to pub­lic con­fi­dence.