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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Senate Bill 1133 erects reasonable guardrails on DCF’s ability to interfere with parents’ reasonable exercise of discretion in terms of independence and autonomy granted to their children
The ACLU-CT strongly supports measures to ensure equal access to the ballot box, like early voting. Without fully funding for equitable early voting in Connecticut, an early voting plan is meaningless.
As the U.S. Supreme Court has turned its back on nearly fifty years of precedent on the right to privacy, a lack of access to reproductive health services, including abortion, is already threatening people’...
The ACLU-CT supports efforts to ensure that advisory boards and oversight committees are impartial from the government entities that they oversee.
The ACLU-CT is an organization dedicated to ending mass incarceration and eliminating systemic racism in the criminal legal system.
In 2021, the ACLU-CT supported Clean Slate, a bill that automatically erases criminal records after a defined conviction-free period. HB 6918 makes clarifying changes to Clean Slate to increase its coverage...