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The Connecticut General Assembly senate today voted to approve a bill regarding police accountability. The senate’s decision followed last week’s house of representatives vote approving the bill. With today’s senate approval, the bill passes the legislature and awaits action from the governor.
The ACLU and ACLU of Connecticut filed a federal lawsuit seeking to make absentee mail-in voting available to every eligible Connecticut voter during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Criminal Justice Commission today announced that it would reappoint State’s Attorney Maureen Platt as State’s Attorney for the Waterbury Judicial District and that State’s Attorney Gail Hardy had withdrawn her bid for reappointment as State’s Attorney for the Hartford Judicial District.
After more than one year of Freedom of Information requests, the ACLU of Connecticut today released a new statewide study of police union contracts titled: “Bargained Away: How Local and State Governments in Connecticut Have Bargained Away Police Accountability.”
The following is a reaction from Melvin Medina, public policy and advocacy director for the ACLU of Connecticut, to Governor Lamont's executive order regarding policing.
The agreement requires the Department of Correction to follow procedures to reduce the risk of COVID-19 for all people who are incarcerated in DOC prisons and jails pre-trial and post-sentence.