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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.
Voters and would-be voters encountered long lines and confusion in New Haven today. The following is a reaction from ACLU of Connecticut legal director Dan Barrett.
Sandy Lomonico, criminal justice organizer for the ACLU of Connecticut, reacts to Independent gubernatorial candidate Oz Griebel’s publication of a criminal justice reform platform.
Yesterday, 28 Connecticut organizations, led by the ACLU of Connecticut’s Smart Justice campaign, sent a letter asking candidates for governor to publish criminal and juvenile justice reform platforms. The following is Smart Justice's reaction to Ned Lamont's release of a platform today.