
This bill seeks to ban the use of police deceptive interrogation tactics on children. “Deception” refers to the commonly disavowed but still legal form of interrogation where police lie to a child during an interrogation in order to coerce a statement or confession to the crime being investigated. No one, including children, should be imprisoned because police coerced them into a false confession. Police deceptive interrogation tactics have a substantial risk of eliciting false confessions. 23% of Connecticut’s wrongful convictions have involved false confessions.