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This proposal would pay lip service to protecting police and corrections workers without actually doing so. It is an unnecessary distraction from efforts to improve safety. Unlike crimes against other...
As introduced, this bill threatens government transparency and accountability. The ACLU of Connecticut opposes Senate Bill 970, An Act Concerning the Confidentiality of Evidence Seized in a Criminal...
Under a statewide electronic tolling system, Connecticut tolls would capture sensitive information about millions of drivers. Without rules to restrict how the government stores, collects, shares, sells, or...
If amended to require that municipal broadband services follow net neutrality policies, this bill would protect the free speech rights of Connecticut residents by providing an alternative to internet...
Reducing or setting limits to the risk reduction credit program (“program”) is poor public policy, as it will make Connecticut less safe, contribute to costly prison overcrowding, make Connecticut's prisons...
This bill would stifle people’s accessibility to information they have a right to obtain, because it would make it more expensive for people to obtain the public information they seek from public agencies...