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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While sports officials – and, indeed, no person – should be subjected to assault just for doing their jobs, making sports officials a specially protected class with an enhanced penalty is not the answer....
While everyone in this state wants to see children protected from harm, mandatory minimums are not the answer.
The ACLU-CT is an organization dedicated to ending mass incarceration and eliminating systemically racist disparities in the criminal legal system.
Improving voting rights and voting access strengthen democracy, since voting is the foundation of democracy itself.
Improving voting rights and voting access strengthens democracy, since voting is the foundation of democracy itself.
Few things ensure that a government effectively serves its people as much as transparency.