Legislation

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.

State's Attorneys are among the most powerful but least accountable actors in the criminal legal system. If Senate Bill 307 is passed, Connecticut will have more transparent prosecution with meaningful opportunities for both oversight and public input.

The Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) is the entity in charge of evaluating state's attorneys, investigating misconduct by state's attorneys, and will soon embark on a national search for Connecticut's next chief state's attorney.

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.