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Reflecting a campaign trail promise that he made to the Smart Justice campaign, Governor Ned Lamont has nominated an expert committed to criminal justice reform, who has been directly impacted by the justice system, to serve on the state’s Criminal Justice Commission.
Connecticut residents' information fed into mass surveillance database ICE is using to track people.
Governor Lamont introduced legislation to increase transparency from prosecutors in Connecticut. Gus Marks-Hamilton, Smart Justice field organizer for the ACLU of Connecticut, had the following reaction.
A prosecutor has declined to charge five New Britain police employees for shooting into a car and killing 20-year-old Zoe Dowdell. The following is a reaction from ACLU-CT legal director Dan Barrett, who represents Dowdell's father, Shawn Dowdell, in a legal case seeking transparency from police.
Hartford City Councilmembers, joined by statewide and local civil liberties organizations, immigrants’ rights organizations, youth and children’s rights organizations, and an LGBTQ rights organization, spoke out in favor of a proposed ordinance to create democratic controls to city surveillance.
The results of the 2018 election are proof that Connecticut voters support smarter justice policies and reject backward-on-crime and silent-on-justice approaches.