ACLU of Connecticut Responds to Release of Police-Commissioned Shadow Traffic Stop Report
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HARTFORD — The ACLU of Connecticut today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request of all Connecticut police departments related to alternative studies of police traffic stop data.
PORTLAND - The ACLU of Connecticut, ACLU of Maine and four other New England ACLU affiliates today filed a lawsuit demanding government documents about the on-the-ground implementation of President Trump’s Muslim bans.
On March 29, the Judiciary Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly amended H.B. 7260, a bill concerning the use and regulation of drones. The following is a reaction from David McGuire, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut (ACLU-CT):
HARTFORD — Today, Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin announced that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents may have worn misleading uniforms, labeled only “police,” in an attempt to lure an undocumented woman to the Hartford Public Safety building and detain her.