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Another person has died after being Tasered by police in Connecticut, bringing the number to at least 14 and prompting another call for statewide regulations of how police use electronic weapons.
A bill designed to punish people who post 'revenge porn' on the Internet is written so loosely that it could interfere with the freedom of speech and of the press, Sandra Staub, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, told a legislative committee on Monday.
The state should require police to get a search warrant before putting a GPS device on a vehicle and should expand the warrant requirement to cover cellphone tracking, David McGuire, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, told the state legislature's Judiciary Commi
For 27 years, Connecticut's harsh drug-free zone law has punished minorities more severely than white people for the same crimes and has failed to protect urban children, David McGuire, staff attorney for the ACLU of Connecticut, told the state legislature's Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Acting to protect privacy rights, the ACLU of Connecticut is supporting a bill to require parental consent before student test results are released to military recruiters and another to prevent employers from asking employees or job applicants for passwords to personal online accounts.
Connecticut's voter identification laws should be correctly and consistently applied but that's not what happened in the 2012 presidential election, Andrew Schneider, executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut, told a legislative committee.