Legislation

The ACLU-CT believes that people receiving treatment in psychiatric facilities, no matter the security level of those facilities, are entitled to dignity and to their constitutionally protected rights.

Injustice thrives in the dark. The ability to shed sunlight on government action through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests is essential to holding public officials accountable and to preventing state-sanctioned discrimination, abuse, and mismanagement.

The public should never have to pay to access records kept by the government, and that includes recordings captured by police body and dashboard cameras.

We cannot jail our way into a lower gun violence rate or real public safety. Real public safety requires investing in programs and services that make us safe, not violent systems like incarceration and policing.

The ACLU-CT supports efforts to ensure that advisory boards and oversight committees are impartial from the government entities that they oversee.

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

In 2021, the ACLU-CT supported Clean Slate, a bill that automatically erases criminal records after a defined conviction-free period. HB 6918 makes clarifying changes to Clean Slate to increase its coverage.

The ACLU-CT believes that all people deserve equal access to reproductive health services. The ACLU-CT opposes criminal prohibition of drugs.

Currently, consumers including Connecticut residents generally expect sensitive health information and data to remain confidential. But unfortunately, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) only protects personally identifiable health information as confidential.