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This is a good step towards preventing a cashless society, with the privacy and equity problems outlined in this testimony, from taking hold in Connecticut. We encourage the Committee to support HB 5312....
Connecticut’s roads must become safer for all users, but the solutions proposed by this bill are too punitive to be the best solution.
Bail bond agents are for-profit businesses that, along with the insurers that back them, make billions on the backs of low- income people and comm5unities of color that have been ravaged by mass...
The ACLU-CT is dedicated to ending mass incarceration. That effort requires that the General Assembly continue making progress towards reducing the number of people who enter the criminal legal system and...
We urge this Committee to not only respond to the opioid crisis’s immediate demands with policies like that of House Bill 5723, but to make policy that supports a long-term move away from dispatching police...
We are very mindful that protecting the opportunity to engage in advocacy and share viewpoints about abortion is protected speech, critical to the First Amendment. That kind of speech is not limited by...