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"While there may be better ways to draw attention to the very real problem of white supremacy, Professor Williams’s choices to use an offensive hashtag, link to a controversial article, and express his political views on his personal Facebook page were protected free speech."
"This decision is a miscarriage of justice. It is a travesty that Jose Maldonado’s family had to wait three years for a perfunctory investigation to produce this inadequate response to their loved one’s death at the hands of police."
"We welcome this bill’s passage, commend legislators from throughout the political spectrum for taking a stand to protect vulnerable people from solitary confinement, and will continue to work toward stopping solitary confinement once and for all in our state.”
Following unanimous, nonpartisan votes of approval in both chambers of the Connecticut General Assembly, a civil asset forfeiture reform bill could make Connecticut the next state to prohibit law enforcement from taking and keeping a person’s property without first convicting them of a crime.
HARTFORD — The Connecticut General Assembly’s Senate this morning voted to approve Governor’s H.B. 7044, a bail reform bill. Today’s vote follows a nonpartisan vote to approve the measure in the House of Representatives.
In light of the Bridgeport police department’s fatal shooting of 15-year-old Jayson Negron, the ACLU of Connecticut joined lawmakers and community organizers at a press conference on Tuesday to call for the legislature to immediately strengthen Connecticut’s police accountability and transparency