Legislation

The ACLU of Connecticut strongly supports the net neutrality and consumer privacy protections included in Senate Bill 5, An Act Concerning Internet Service Providers and Net Neutrality Principles. We urge the legislature to pass this bill.

Establishing a Connecticut tax credit is one tool in the chest when it comes to helping people with a criminal history get employment. We believe in using this tool and others that will bring about an end to the employment barriers and discrimination faced by people with a criminal record.

This bill proposes to quadruple the maximum punishment for theft of used cooking oil of any or no value. This is an unnecessary overcriminalization. We urge the legislature to oppose this bill.

The ACLU-CT supports meaningful reform aimed at holding educational institutions accountable when they fail to respond to gender-based violence and at empowering people who have experienced sexual assault or intimate partner violence.

Age discrimination faultily assumes that a person’s age is more important than their individual characteristics. When an employer classifies a job applicant who is able to perform the work as ineligible solely because they are older, that applicant is denied equal protection of the law.

The ACLU-CT supports this bill, which would require employers to grant an employee, at their request, at least four hours during their work day to vote on Election Day.

The ACLU-CT supports this bill, which would establish a grant program for eligible minority business enterprises in distressed municipalities to develop and increase the workforce in those municipalities.