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The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut joined other supporters of aid-in-dying legislation at a news conference Wednesday to urge legislators to allow terminally ill, mentally competent patients to choose death with dignity.
After an initial disagreement over an annual racial profiling report presented to the Manchester Board of Directors by the Manchester police chief, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut and the town of Manchester established a consensus on the importance of better data on traffic stop
The Manchester Police Department used invalid methodology and unsupported conclusions in its report, released this week, purporting to analyze racial profiling by its officers.
The Waterbury Board of Aldermen rescinded a policy that limited comments from the public at its meetings after the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut warned that the restrictions violated free speech rights.
A policy that restricts public comment at meetings of the Waterbury Board of Aldermen violates free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut warned in a letter to Mayor Neil M. O’Leary and the aldermen.
Connecticut must stop sentencing juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole in order to conform to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned the practice, ACLU of Connecticut Legal Director Sandra Staub wrote in testimony for the state Sentencing Commission