The ACLU of Connecticut takes an active role in every session of the state legislature to support bills that advance civil liberties and oppose those that do not. We have testified before the legislature hundreds of times and have taken leading roles in the struggles to repeal the death penalty, fight racial profiling, challenge police practices, advocate for decarceation and an end to discrimination against people living with a criminal record, protect and expand LGBTQIA+ rights, and prevent encroachment on the right to free speech.
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The ACLU-CT believes that everyone should be paid a fair wage for their labor, including people who are incarcerated. Justice-impacted families are bled dry by the criminal legal system.
We need to tackle the opioid crisis with public health and epidemic responses to combat the rising number of deaths, and not by further entrenching policing in the problem. We support bills like House Bill...
Connecticut is stronger and safer when a person who is formerly incarcerated has a fair chance of accessing a job, housing, and education. Yet, people who are formally incarcerated are nearly ten times more...
School resource officers are police, just as much as any other law enforcement staff across the state, and their in-school policing has much of the same effects on school communities as municipal and state...
Improving voting rights and voting access strengthens democracy, since voting is a cornerstone of democracy itself.
Today, there is widespread recognition that disordered substance use is an illness to be treated and not a criminal problem to be punished. However, CT and the rest of the U.S. insist on addressing...