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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We have concerns with House Bill 5420 because of the its failure to reduce the role of policing in our communities, particularly with regard to some of our most vulnerable residents when they are in need of...
The ACLU-CT supports programs that seek to dismantle Connecticut’s high rates of income inequality, which disproportionately impact communities of color. This bill makes technical and clarifying changes to...
To create an equitable world for all people, the ACLU-CT believes that we must address institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia, and other practices of discrimination in all its forms. These forms of...
Connecticut is making strides toward eliminating collateral consequences of criminal records, but to achieve this goal, the state cannot continue to impose new collateral consequences on people trying to...
The harms of incarceration and systemic racism are magnified when people are subjected to incarceration as young people. The ACLU-CT supports efforts to study the status of our criminal legal system to...
While Connecticut has made important improvements in reducing the number of young people who are incarcerated, it has concurrently worsened racial and ethnic disparities. In 2015, 79 percent of young people...