Legislation

We're committed to policy solutions that protect marginalized communities from violence. We cannot, though, support efforts that increase violence by increasing existing overpolicing of marginalized communities.

The ACLU-CT strongly supports House Bill 5254 as an essential measure to confronting a deep history of racial discrimination in Connecticut’s public spaces. Access to the shoreline by Connecticut residents should not be determined by zip code, and instead should be open to all.

House Bill 5349 is a good initial step toward police accountability by requiring the timely reporting of a death to the next of kin by police officers—a measure that should have already been in place.

Deceptive interrogation tactics used by police are unconscionable, expensive, and most harm the people whom our state has made most vulnerable: people of color, youth, and people with mental or physical disabilities. S.B. 306 would take critical steps toward ending deceptive police interrogations.

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

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.

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

The ACLU-CT believes strongly in removing barriers that prevent people from accessing the ability to run for elected office, particularly barriers that present a disproportionate hurdle to underrepresented groups.

Protecting the right to vote for people who have been incarcerated strengthens our democracy by increasing voter participation and helping incarcerated people stay connected to society and community.