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, reform police practices, decriminalize marijuana, protect LGBT rights, and prevent encroachment on the right to free speech.
This bill goes a long way toward ensuring that no person will have to choose between their health and their right to vote in November during the COVID-19 pandemic. It could do more, though, to apply this common-sense solution to future elections impacted by this or other pandemics.
The ACLU-CT is committed to ending police violence and racism in policing in all forms. Accountability measures alone are not enough. Connecticut must also divest from policing and reinvest in programs that build strong and safe communities.
This bill proposes to quadruple the maximum punishment for theft of used cooking oil of any or no value. This is an unnecessary overcriminalization. We urge the legislature to oppose this bill.
The ACLU-CT supports meaningful reform aimed at holding educational institutions accountable when they fail to respond to gender-based violence and at empowering people who have experienced sexual assault or intimate partner violence.
Age discrimination faultily assumes that a person’s age is more important than their individual characteristics. When an employer classifies a job applicant who is able to perform the work as ineligible solely because they are older, that applicant is denied equal protection of the law.
The ACLU of Connecticut submitted testimony: supporting Senate Bill 105, An Act Establishing a Right to Housing, with amendments;
opposing Senate Bill 109, An Act Concerning a Landlord’s Ability to Consider the Criminal Record of Prospective Tenants unless amended;