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Clean Slate is a good policy that will make our communities safer, will create new economic opportunity and growth, and will help redress the long and enduring legacy of racial injustice in our criminal justice system.

"We have a window of opportunity, a small window that is already closing, to deepen and expand the protection of fundamental civil rights and civil liberties and really tear apart the structure of systemic racism & inequality."

Legislative session ends on June 9. As we head into the last weeks of session, the clock is ticking on all of these bills.

Any proposal for vaccine credentials must be primarily paper-based, decentralized, and protect privacy.

The legislature needs to pass S.B. 1059, the PROTECT Act.

Smart Justice leader Will Roberts testified before the Government Administration and Elections Committee hearing today in support of H.B. 6578, bill that would restore the right to vote for people who are on parole in Connecticut. Here is what he told the committee:

"There is no reason State’s Attorneys should be exempt from public accountability. Their job is to represent the interests of the people of Connecticut. All of Connecticut: that includes incarcerated and formally incarcerated individuals. People like me."

History could keep repeating itself without rules to start holding state’s attorneys to commonsense best practices.

In our state, the top prosecutors in each judicial district go for eight years without any external oversight. A bill in the legislature could change that.