The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut is proud to join with the Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance for Lobby Day 2015 to defend important civil liberties in the Constitution State.
Lobby Day 2015 is an opportunity to meet with your legislators and have your voice heard on critical civil liberties issues. The items on this year’s agenda include:
- Police militarization. We need transparency and oversight when police acquire military equipment and use it in SWAT deployments.
- Due process. Let’s get the “transfer statute” repealed so the state can’t put children in prison without criminal charges or trial, as it did to Jane Doe.
- Privacy rights. Police should have to get a warrant before they fly a surveillance drone into your back yard or get records of your phone calls and movements.
- Aid in dying. Mentally competent, terminally ill patients deserve the right to make their own choices about how to die.
- Youth and student rights. We need clear agreements with police officers assigned to schools to reduce criminalization of typical student behavior and cut racial disparities in arrests.
ACLU of Connecticut and the Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance are also continuing to ally in support of the TRUST Act. This bill would help prevent civil immigration detainers, which are used to apprehend people who come in contact with local law enforcement agencies in order to put them into the federal deportation system.
About Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance: The Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance (CIRA) is a statewide alliance of immigrant, faith, labor, youth, community, business and ally organizations founded to improve the lives of Connecticut’s diverse immigrant community.
