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 LGBTQIA+ rights, and prevent encroachment on the right to free speech.
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The ACLU-CT supports this bill, which would establish a grant program for eligible minority business enterprises in distressed municipalities to develop and increase the workforce in those municipalities....
As an organization committed to justice and equality, the ACLU-CT strongly opposes this unnecessary bill, which would cause more juveniles to be transferred to the adult criminal system by including car...
Prosecutors hold people’s lives in their hands. Despite the enormous power that prosecutors wield, Connecticut residents have very little information about what they do. We support S.B. 880 to bring...
The War on Marijuana, like the War on Drugs overall, has been a massive failure and injustice. It has led to over-policing, torn apart families and communities, ruined people’s lives, wasted time and money...
Without network neutrality, internet service companies can determine which content we can see, how quickly we can access it, and how much we pay for it. This bill would protect the freedom of the internet...
The pain and fear that the federal government’s deportation agenda is wreaking on immigrant communities is undeniable, and Connecticut should take every step to ensure that local and state law enforcement...