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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House Bill 5347 represents a piecemeal attack on important and laudable criminal justice reforms in Connecticut, including our Clean Slate legislation—the most robust Clean Slate law in the nation. This...
Medical care is a human right, so immigration status should have no impact on someone’s ability to access healthcare. Senate Bill 284 recognizes and codifies that value.
The ACLU-CT opposes statutory rights authorizing the deadly use of force, like stand your ground laws and the castle doctrine, because they raise serious civil liberties and racial justice concerns. These...
Recognizing these harms and disparities, the ACLU-CT believes that children should be supported with services and resources that support them, their families, and their communities, rather than criminalized...
Highly militarized policing should be defunded in favor of investing those funds into the programs, resources, and services that truly create stable, healthy, and safe communities.
Protecting residents in long term care facilities is important, but mandatory background checks will limit the ability of people living with criminal records to get the end-of-life residential care they...