The ACLU of Connecticut takes an active role in every session of the state legislature to support bills that advance civil liberties and oppose those that do not. We have testified before the legislature hundreds of times and have taken leading roles in the struggles to repeal the death penalty, fight racial profiling, challenge police practices, advocate for decarceation and an end to discrimination against people living with a criminal record, protect and expand LGBT rights, and prevent encroachment on the right to free speech.
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S.B. 1093 would undo restrictions on stop and frisk created by the summer of 2020's police accountability bill and make body camera footage even less accessible to people and even more useful only for police.
Given the important consequences for Connecticut’s kids who get involved in the criminal legal system, guaranteeing legal counsel to them in every criminal matter is vital to ensure justice is served.
While sports officials – and, indeed, no person – should be subjected to assault just for doing their jobs, making sports officials a specially protected class with an enhanced penalty is not the answer.
While everyone in this state wants to see children protected from harm, mandatory minimums are not the answer.
The ACLU-CT is an organization dedicated to ending mass incarceration and eliminating systemically racist disparities in the criminal legal system.
Improving voting rights and voting access strengthen democracy, since voting is the foundation of democracy itself.