Legislation

The ACLU-CT supports legislation that addresses our utilities rate hike crisis, like HB 6582.

Food insecurity and food deserts are one nefarious way in which our state’s checkered history of racial inequity rears its head.

The ACLU-CT is committed to defending the rights of Native Americans to be free from discrimination and governmental abuse of power.

The ACLU-CT is dedicated to ensuring that LGBTQ+ people can live openly and freely, with full rights, personal autonomy, and freedom of expression and association.

SB 1194 would remove over 800 people mandated to retroactively register for lifetime in Connecticut’s 1998 expansion of the registry. Placement on the registry, even though the vast majority of people have not recidivated, imposes a life sentence on people who have served their time.

One way to shrink policing in Connecticut is through designating secondary traffic stops for low-level equipment and administrative violations and prohibiting police from making traffic stops for those administrative violations.

HB 6878 rolls back too many needed accountability provisions and re-expands opportunities for police searches not even two years after the police accountability bill was enacted.

SB 953 was unanimously endorsed by the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project Advisory Board, of which the ACLU-CT is a member. The bill updates our 1999 definition of racial profiling to be more aligned with the rest of the country.

Family violence is a legitimate problem in Connecticut and throughout the country, and it requires real, meaningful solutions that truly increase safety and community health.