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The state Senate passed House Bill 5389 on a 35-1 vote Wednesday night as the legislative session drew to a close, requiring police departments that use Tasers or other electronic weapons to adopt policies on their use and to track and report all incidents in which they are deployed.
A letter is often taken for granted, but not by prisoners when it is an essential lifeline to the outside world.
Another person has died after being Tasered by police in Connecticut, bringing the number to at least 14 and prompting another call for statewide regulations of how police use electronic weapons.
A bill designed to punish people who post 'revenge porn' on the Internet is written so loosely that it could interfere with the freedom of speech and of the press, Sandra Staub, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, told a legislative committee on Monday.
The state should require police to get a search warrant before putting a GPS device on a vehicle and should expand the warrant requirement to cover cellphone tracking, David McGuire, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, told the state legislature's Judiciary Commi
For 27 years, Connecticut's harsh drug-free zone law has punished minorities more severely than white people for the same crimes and has failed to protect urban children, David McGuire, staff attorney for the ACLU of Connecticut, told the state legislature's Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.