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.

The ACLU-CT is an organization dedicated to ending mass incarceration and eliminating systemically racist disparities in the criminal legal system.

While everyone in this state wants to see children protected from harm, mandatory minimums are not the answer.

Given the important consequences for Connecticut’s kids who get involved in the criminal legal system, guaranteeing legal counsel to them in every criminal matter is vital to ensure justice is served.

While sports officials – and, indeed, no person – should be subjected to assault just for doing their jobs, making sports officials a specially protected class with an enhanced penalty is not the answer.

Improving voting rights and voting access strengthen democracy, since voting is the foundation of democracy itself.

One of the most crucial ways that people can have a voice in their government is to observe, participate in, testify at, and attend the meetings of local government.

Few things ensure that a government effectively serves its people as much as transparency.

The ACLU-CT is an organization dedicated to racial equity in civil society. One deeply disturbing way that racism shows up is in the health care people can access and in the health outcomes for people of color, particularly Black people.