Press Releases

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Jun 28, 2023

Reaction to Racial Profiling Prohibition Project Audit of Connecticut State Police Traffic Stop Records

The Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project today released the results of its investigation into Connecticut State Police traffic stop records.
Issue Areas: Policing, Racial Justice
May 31, 2023

ACLU-CT Heralds Passage of Bill to Protect Children from Police Deception

The Connecticut House of Representatives today voted to pass S.B. 1071, a bill to ban police from using deceptive interrogation tactics against children. The legislation now awaits action by Governor Lamont.
Issue Areas: Policing, Criminal Legal System, Youth and Student Rights
Mar 08, 2023

Advocates Call to End Deceptive Police Interrogations of Youth

Survivors of police deceptive interrogation, advocates, legislators, and national experts gathered to call on the legislature to pass S.B. 1071, a bill to end deceptive police interrogations of children.
Issue Areas: Criminal Legal System, Policing, Youth and Student Rights, Racial Justice
Feb 28, 2023

Federal Court Sides with Protester in Case Against Stamford Police Officer

A federal appeals court has ruled that Stamford police officer Richard Gasparino violated Michael Friend’s rights during a protest in which Friend held a “Cops Ahead” sign on a sidewalk near a Stamford police cellphone sting site.
Issue Areas: Free Speech, Policing
Court Cases: Friend v Gasparino, City of Stamford
Oct 18, 2022

Gubernatorial and Secretary of the State Candidates Respond to Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Survey

In response to a survey from the ACLU of Connecticut Rise PAC, candidates seeking to become Connecticut’s next Governor and Secretary of the State have published their views regarding voting rights, policing, incarceration, LGBTQ+ rights, and abortion access. 
Issue Areas: Voting Rights, Racial Justice, LGBTQIA+ Rights, Reproductive Justice, Policing, Criminal Legal System
Sep 13, 2022

ACLU of Connecticut Rise PAC Launches

New nonpartisan political action committee brings ACLU of Connecticut issue advocacy to electoral cycle, aims to build the political power of people directly impacted by civil rights & liberties issues. PAC announces support for early voting ballot question, sent surveys to candidates.
Issue Areas: Racial Justice, Policing, Criminal Legal System, Voting Rights
Jun 23, 2022

Statement Regarding U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Vega v Tekoh

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Vega v. Tekoh that a person cannot sue a police officer under federal civil rights laws for violating their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination by failing to provide a Miranda warning.
Issue Areas: Policing
Apr 20, 2022

Statement Regarding Arrest of State Police Trooper Brian North for Killing Mubarak Soulemane

Inspector General Robert Devlin announced that State Police trooper Brian North was arrested for killing Mubarak Soulemane in January 2020. Devlin also released a report into North’s killing of Soulemane. The following is a reaction from ACLU-CT public policy and advocacy director Claudine Constant.
Issue Areas: Policing, Racial Justice
Jan 18, 2022

New Website Centralizes Connecticut Statewide and Local Police Contracts and Police Commission Information for First Time

Project Flashlight, launched today by the ACLU of Connecticut, is an interactive website that centralizes, summarizes, and maintains information about the powers that town and statewide governments have traded away to police.
Issue Areas: Policing, Racial Justice, Criminal Legal System