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The Criminal Justice Commission today announced that it would reappoint State’s Attorney Maureen Platt as State’s Attorney for the Waterbury Judicial District and that State’s Attorney Gail Hardy had withdrawn her bid for reappointment as State’s Attorney for the Hartford Judicial District.
After more than one year of Freedom of Information requests, the ACLU of Connecticut today released a new statewide study of police union contracts titled: “Bargained Away: How Local and State Governments in Connecticut Have Bargained Away Police Accountability.”
The following is a reaction from Melvin Medina, public policy and advocacy director for the ACLU of Connecticut, to Governor Lamont's executive order regarding policing.
The agreement requires the Department of Correction to follow procedures to reduce the risk of COVID-19 for all people who are incarcerated in DOC prisons and jails pre-trial and post-sentence.
We call on all police in Connecticut to follow the law, uphold the constitution, and protect public safety by respecting people’s rights to peacefully protest.
People are protesting in Bridgeport following the killing by Minneapolis police of George Floyd. The following is a reaction from David McGuire, executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut.