New Report on False State Police Ticket Records Raises Questions and Concerns

When the new state-ordered investigation regarding the CT State Police falsifying traffic records was released on January 31, 2024, we hoped it would shed new light on this statewide scandal. Instead, the more carefully we read this new report, the more it reinforced our concerns.

This photo captures a legislative forum about the fake traffic ticket scandal from the back of the room. Several people's backs are towards the camera with legislators in the background of the photo.

Looking Ahead: Our 2024 Legislative Priorities

Welcome to 2024. We have a lot to do during this legislative session and we’ll need your help to step up to protect the civil rights of everyone in our communities. Are you ready to join us?

By Rachel Moon

In the Senate room, five of our Smart Justice leaders are sitting together and smiling at the camera with their Smart Justice blue apparel.

ACLU-CT Introduces New Office in Fairfield County

Sit down with David McGuire, Erycka Ortiz, and Amber Vlangas to talk about what the ACLU-CT sees for its future in Fairfield County.

By David McGuire, Rachel Moon, Erycka Ortiz, Amber Vlangas

Behind a wooden podium with the ACLU-CT's logo, stands a Black-Taino women with a light brown afro on the left, a white woman with blonde hair to her right, a white man with dark hair and glasses to her right, and a white man with brown hair on the right.

Wrapping up the 2023 legislative session

The ACLU of Connecticut approached the 2023 legislative session with ambitious goals to improve access to the ballot box, begin holding prosecutors accountable, and protect children from police lying and threats. 

Connecticut State Capitol

Defend the right to learn and read

Attempted book bans are on the rise in Connecticut. Here’s how you can push back.

A red "censored" stamp covers a stack of books and a hand holding a bullhorn. All are behind a pink filter effect.

Here's How Connecticut Could Implement a Historic New Voting Law

Introducing early voting would begin to address the state’s racist history of voter suppression.

An Afrian-American woman drops a ballot into a State of Connecticut Official Ballot Drop Box outside Hartford City Hall.

The BOPP needs to re-start the commutations process

Every person should have a chance at hope. The criminal legal system should be open to the idea of redemption and rehabilitation. We join the call for the CT Board of Pardons and Paroles (BOPP) to re-start commutations.

an individual standing at a podium speaking, only their hands and the podium are visable

State’s Attorney should be representing the interests of the people of Connecticut.

State’s Attorney should be representing the interests of the people of Connecticut—that includes incarcerated and formally incarcerated individuals. PEOPLE LIKE ME.

By Shelby Henderson

ACLUCT Smart Justice leader Shelby Henderson sits behind a desk, smiling at the camera, with one hand on her chin. She is behind a desk, laptop and wearing a blue people not prisons shirt, with ACLU of CT banners and a people not prisons poster behind her

Prosecutors hold people’s lives in their hands.

Every Connecticut resident is affected by the decisions made by Connecticut prosecutors, known as “state’s attorneys".

By Gus Marks-Hamilton

Gus Marks-Hamilton ACLU of Connecticut / ACLU-CT Smart Justice field organizer