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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.
The ACLU-CT strongly encourages the legislature to support House Bill 5563 and to expand it to include training about all people in the criminal justice system living with mental health and PTSD issues.
The ACLU-CT strongly supports a free and fair voting system to uphold the foundational cornerstone of our democracy: the right to vote. We therefore support these measures, which would provide more people with the opportunity to participate in Connecticut elections.
By passing this bill, Connecticut would join Florida, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and ten other states plus the District of Columbia in affording people on parole their rights to vote.
We encourage the committee to amend Senate Bill 846, An Act Concerning the Municipal Gain, the Preparation of Utility Poles and Enterprise Funds for Municipal Broadband Services to require that municipal broadband services comply with network neutrality policies and to support the amended bill.
Mass incarceration, combined with disenfranchisement laws, subverts participatory democracy, particularly for communities of color. Restoring the right to vote for people who are incarcerated is a key step in dismantling these harmful and discriminatory laws.
As an organization that fights for equal opportunity for all, the ACLU-CT supports this bill, which would require the CHRO to conduct a disparity study regarding the state’s set-aside program.
