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The Connecticut House of Representatives today voted to pass S.B. 1071, a bill to ban police from using deceptive interrogation tactics against children. The legislation now awaits action by Governor Lamont.
The Connecticut Senate today voted to pass a bill to create early voting in the state beginning in 2024.The legislation now awaits action by Governor Lamont.
Two new plaintiffs have joined Beatty v. Lamont, a lawsuit seeking to eliminate Connecticut’s “prison debt” law, under which the state forces people it incarcerated to pay hundreds of dollars for each day they spent in prison.
Survivors of police deceptive interrogation, advocates, legislators, and national experts gathered to call on the legislature to pass S.B. 1071, a bill to end deceptive police interrogations of children.
A federal court has ruled that Teresa Beatty can sue to end Connecticut’s prison debt law. The court also ruled that Ms. Beatty must substitute a different set of state defendants in order for her lawsuit to proceed.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Stamford police officer Richard Gasparino violated Michael Friend’s rights during a protest in which Friend held a “Cops Ahead” sign on a sidewalk near a Stamford police cellphone sting site.