The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut is proud to join with Hartford Rising! for Lobby Day 2015 to defend the rights to privacy, due process and battle against discriminatory policing.
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 Let’s get the “transfer statute” repealed so the state can’t put children in prison without criminal charges or trial, as it did to Jane Doe.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.
About Hartford Rising!: Hartford Rising! is a grassroots coalition of individuals, community organizations, and civic leaders dedicated to break the bonds of poverty on Connecticut’s Capitol City and its neighborhoods. The coalition has committed to develop and adopt a “Community Bill of Rights;” a social compact that seeks to address the Hartford’s high unemployment, disparities in civil rights, income inequality, and lack of a quality public education for all its students.
