Legislation
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Mar 09, 2022
Section Two, H.B. 5372, An Act Permitting Clinical Social Workers to Conduct Periodic Behavioral Health Assessments of Police Officers and Promoting the Increased Use of Clinical Social Workers By Law Enforcement Units When Issuing Emergency Certificates
We have significant concerns with House Bill 5372 because of the its failure to reduce the role of policing in our communities, particularly with regard to some of our most vulnerable residents when they are in need of medical care for a mental health crisis.
Mar 09, 2022
S.B. 254, An Act Requiring Long-Term Care Facility Residents to Undergo a Criminal History and Sexual Offender Registry Search
The ACLU-CT opposes legislation that add to the labyrinth of collateral consequences that people living with a criminal record face every day in this state. Unless amended, Senate Bill 254 will add another collateral consequence to the bucket.
Mar 09, 2022
H.B. 5341, An Act Revising Various Police Accrediation, Certification, Training, Immunity, Use of Military Grade Equipment and Search and Pursuit Statutes, and Concerning the State Police Shooting Range
House Bill 5351 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. Accordingly, the ACLU-CT strongly opposes House Bill 5351 and urges this Committee to oppose it as well.
Mar 09, 2022
S.B. 304, An Act Implementing the Recommendations of the Police Transparency and Accountability Task Force
Senate Bill 304 includes numerous strong provisions that increase accountability for police while decreasing their role, including provisions regarding school resource officers, secondary traffic violations, and more.
Mar 09, 2022
S.B. 305, An Act Revising Statutes Governing Actions By the Police, Proactive Policing and Enhancing Recruitment Efforts
Senate Bill 305 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. Accordingly, the ACLU-CT strongly opposes Senate Bill 305, and urges this Committee to oppose it as well.
Mar 09, 2022
H.B. 5191, An Act Concerning Emergency Intervention By a Police Officer When a Person Suffers a Narcotics Overdose
Police and other criminal legal system actors are simply not the appropriate people to handle the public health needs of substance use disorders; they are not public health actors whose sole job is to connect people with the health services they need.
Mar 09, 2022
S.B. 334, An Act Establishing a Program To Make Preparing For and Taking the Commercial Learner Permit Knowledge Test Available For Incarcerated Persons
Senate Bill 334 makes obtaining a commercial learner permit test easier for people as they prepare to return to their communities from incarceration. But this bill could be made stronger.
Mar 09, 2022
H.B. 5001, An Act Concerning Children’s Mental Health
The ACLU-CT applauds many provisions of this bill and suggests changes to reduce the school to prison pipeline.
Mar 09, 2022
S.B. 306, An Act Concerning Deceptive Interrogation Tactics
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.
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