HB 6624, An Act Concerning Retired Police and Parole Officers Providing School Security and Peace Officers Carrying Firearms on School Property

The ACLU-CT believes that in order to reduce the harm that policing is causing communities of color across the state, Connecticut must reduce the role, responsibilities, and presence of police. This means, at minimum, diverting funds from policing to building safe and healthy communities. School resource officers are police, just as much as any other law enforcement staff across the state, and their in-
school policing has much of the same effects on school communities as municipal and state policing have on the broader community.