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This new law tasks the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at Central Connecticut State University with studying and submitting a report that assesses police training in Connecticut and recommends...
By law, if administered or conducted by the Connecticut State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, Police Officer Standards and Training Council, or local police...
This proposal would have required employers in Connecticut to adhere to federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines. The bill also would have prevented employers from discriminating against...
The first part of this bill would have raised the age when a young person could be treated as an adult in court to age 20. This would have helped to ensure that a young person who made a mistake received a...
The ACLU-CT supported this measure as a natural extension of 2015's Second Chance Society law. This proposal would have provided juveniles with credit for timr served while they were in detention facilities...
This new law prevents the state from detaining a juvenile for longer than seven days without a hearing. It will also help police to become better-trained for working with youth and creates a community-based...