News & Commentary

Mar 03, 2023

Schools should be places of learning. Not places for policing.

It didn’t make any sense to me that at a place of learning where I wanted to be focused on my future, instead I was facing just another battle. Police in schools are pre-prepping young people to be traumatized and victimized when they’re just trying to be students.

By Terri Ricks

ACLU of CT Smart Justice leader Terri Ricks sits, smiling and facing the camera. She is wearing glasses and a blue people not prisons sweatshirt, in front of a yellow people not prisons sign.
Sep 13, 2022

Get to Know the Candidates for Governor

Learn more about the candidates for governor in the ACLU of Connecticut Rise PAC questionnaires.

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Sep 13, 2022

Introducing the ACLU of Connecticut Rise PAC

Building the political power of people directly impacted by civil rights and liberties issues, to advance civil liberties and civil rights.

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Jul 22, 2022

CT Must Build Communities Where All Youth Can Succeed

With #InvestInMeCT, the Connecticut Justice Alliance is demanding that Connecticut invest time, care, love, and resources into communities – not punishment and incarceration.

By Christina Quaranta

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Jul 06, 2022

Towns, quit criminalizing people who ask for help

No one should be criminalized for asking for help. Yet that is exactly what towns do when they attempt to ban people from panhandling.

By Dan Barrett

A cardboard sign sits on the grass in front of the CT state capitol building. In black letters with white background, the sign says: "dismantle the mass incarceration system"
Jun 29, 2022

Anti-Panhandling Ordinances Must Be Repealed

Eliminating the symptoms of the social crisis that we are going through with policing is neither an effective policy nor a morally sound one.

By Thomas Regan-Lefebvre

Red tent with white sign. Sign reads: Divest from policing / invest in2 community
May 06, 2022

What happened at the legislature in 2022?

We fought every step of the way for liberation, justice, and equity. Here is the good and bad news.

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Feb 25, 2022

Youth need care, not cops

We're proud to be in solidarity with the Community First Coalition's Care Not Cops campaign.

By Claudine Constant

Claudine Fox ACLUCT public policy and advocacy director delivers a speech through a bullhorn. She wears a blue people not prisons hoodie and black coat. behind her, Barbara Fair holds a sign that says human life matters.
Jan 18, 2022

Project Flashlight

Shining a light on the ways police operate in the shadows.

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