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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This bill would stifle people’s abilities to access information they have a right to obtain while creating unequal privacy protections for some people based solely on occupation. We therefore oppose this...
The ACLU-CT supports this bill to create a working group to study all available housing options for formerly incarcerated people, and we encourage the working group to include formerly incarcerated people....
As the ACLU of Connecticut firmly believes that there can be no such thing as too much oversight of police, we support this bill in concept, but this proposal does not go far enough toward solving...
As an organization committed to defending the rights of youth and students, the ACLU-CT supports the creation of a task force to study interventions for at-risk youth. The ACLU-CT recommends that this task...
Right now, certain restrictions around occupational licenses tend to disproportionately and negatively impact formerly incarcerated people, people with criminal records, and people of color. Therefore, the...
The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal network neutrality principles for internet service providers threatens people’s abilities to participate in democracy via the internet. Without...