Children as young as five have been stopped and searched in Teesside.

Three children aged five years have all been stopped and searched in the past six years.

One of them was for drugs, one was for going equipped for stealing and the third was for stolen property.

Reported by The Cleveland Gazette. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.