Legislation

School resource officers are police, just as much as any other law enforcement staff across the state, and their in-school policing has much of the same effects on school communities as municipal and state policing have on the broader community.

Connecticut is stronger and safer when a person who is formerly incarcerated has a fair chance of accessing a job, housing, and education. Yet, people who are formally incarcerated are nearly ten times more likely to be homeless than any other members of the public.

We need to tackle the opioid crisis with public health and epidemic responses to combat the rising number of deaths, and not by further entrenching policing in the problem. We support bills like House Bill 6090 that approach the opioid crisis through a lens of harm reduction.

With free school meal programs ending at the federal level, Connecticut has the chance to be a leader in the fight to end food insecurity by filling the gap because all children, regardless of their family’s income, deserve access to food.

Criminal penalization through both fines and prison sentences is an outrageously disproportionate response to the vandalization of stone walls.

Voting is a foundation of democracy, a right through which we can protect and preserve our other rights.

Connecticut voters have spoken, and early voting is extremely popular and necessary.

The ACLU-CT believes that all people deserve equal access to reproductive health services, including fertility treatments.

Relying on police as first responders to drug overdoses and other addiction crises will not improve our public health outlook for opioid addiction, but rather will prop up the system of mass incarceration.