Legislation

Every person, of every immigration status, has fundamental human and legal rights that deserve protection and respect. Most children and adults in Connecticut faced with deportation proceedings, however, often do not have access to legal counsel to help them fight for their legal rights.

The pain and fear that the federal government’s deportation agenda is wreaking on immigrant communities is undeniable, and Connecticut should take every step to ensure that local and state law enforcement are not parties to this harmful machine. We support this bill to strengthen the TRUST Act.

Without network neutrality, internet service companies can determine which content we can see, how quickly we can access it, and how much we pay for it. This bill would protect the freedom of the internet for the people of Connecticut.

This proposal would pay lip service to protecting police and corrections workers without actually doing so. It is an unnecessary distraction from efforts to improve safety. Unlike crimes against other groups, there is no history of crimes against public safety employees being under-prosecuted.

We all want to live in democratic communities, and we value government accountability. When police acquire and use surveillance technology in secret, without public approval or debate, it undermines democracy, transparency, and accountability for everyone.

This bill would take steps to protect that privacy by allowing people who share a health insurance plan with others and who are authorized to consent to their own health care to keep the details of their health care private.

This bill would fill a gap in Connecticut’s anti-discrimination protections by ensuring that employers cannot discriminate against members of the civil air patrol on the basis of their service or on their absence as a result of their service in the civil air patrol.

As an organization that fights for equal opportunity for all, the ACLU-CT supports this bill, which would require the CHRO to conduct a disparity study regarding the state’s set-aside program.

Mass incarceration, combined with disenfranchisement laws, subverts participatory democracy, particularly for communities of color. Restoring the right to vote for people who are incarcerated is a key step in dismantling these harmful and discriminatory laws.