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"To ban a book is to gag the writer and blindfold the reader. Neither is acceptable in a country where freedom of speech is treasured." - Wally Lamb
The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut is warning school officials in Torrington that a proposed policy censoring the speech of athletes at Torrington High School would violate the students’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
The death of a man early Tuesday morning after New Britain police Tasered him has prompted the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut to renew a call for meaningful Taser regulation.
The Winchester Board of Selectmen has abandoned a policy that prohibited “personal complaints or defamatory comments” from the public at its meetings after the ACLU of Connecticut warned that the policy was unconstitutional.
A group of senators is proposing two measures to reform the secret FISA courts, which approved the massive government domestic spying operation revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut sent a letter to Winchester officials today, warning that a policy restricting what members of the public can say at Board of Selectmen me