Legislation

S.B. 1093 would undo restrictions on stop and frisk created by the summer of 2020's police accountability bill and make body camera footage even less accessible to people and even more useful only for police.

Due process is the minimum standard of procedural fairness; it requires, at a minimum, notice and an opportunity to be heard by a neutral decisionmaker.

Highly militarized police units, like SWAT teams, turn communities into war zones. Neighborhoods are not battlegrounds and no arm of the government should be treating us like wartime enemies.

Today, there is widespread recognition that addiction is, fundamentally, an illness to be treated.

Connecticut must also divest from policing and reinvest in programs that build strong and safe communities.

The ACLU-CT believes that due to systemic racism in policing across the country, the most effective way to keep communities of color safe from overpolicing and police violence is to reimagine the role of police.

One step towards eradicating police killings is to make the law clear that police are authorized to use deadly force only in narrow situations, rather than giving police wide latitude to shoot, beat, Tase, or otherwise injure or kill people.