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ACLU-CT Smart Justice field organizers Anderson Curtis and Tiheba Williams-Bain are educating and mobilizing Connecticut residents to end mass incarceration and eliminate racial disparities in our state's criminal justice system.

No parent who speaks out against police violence, including and especially an elected official with a responsibility to serve their constituents, should be silenced by the government.

This week, Governor Malloy issued an executive order requiring the state Department of Transportation to conduct a $10 million study of electronic tolling on Connecticut roads. Missing from that executive order? Any mention of people’s privacy rights.

On Friday, a group of ACLU Smart Justice Connecticut member leaders, experts who have been directly impacted by Connecticut’s justice system, walked into the chief state’s attorney’s office.

ACLU Smart Justice Connecticut is here to turbocharge the fight to end mass incarceration in the Constitution State. Here's how (and why).

Connecticut’s 2018 legislative session ended on May 9. This session, the ACLU of Connecticut weighed in with testimony on more than 80 bills. We advocated to support some positive bills and opposed threats to civil liberties that would have taken our state backward. On other bills, we raised important questions but remained neutral in our position.

Net neutrality is about the principle that internet service providers shouldn’t get to decide what information we see. Here are five reasons why Connecticut should be the next state to pass net neutrality protections into law.

In a week when the ACLU of Connecticut weighed in with testimony on 13 bills, we saw: some good, pro-civil liberties bills that we support; some dangerous, anti-civil liberties proposals that we oppose; and some bills that are well-intentioned but need work.

In December, the Hartford City Council gave the go-ahead for the city to apply for a $2.5 million grant to expand police surveillance in Connecticut’s capital city. This grant would enable Hartford police to purchase two high-powered drones and to expand Hartford’s existing police surveillance network.