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Separating Connecticut public school students on the basis of sex would be illegal, as well as educationally unsound, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut and the ACLU Women's Rights Project wrote in a letter to Connecticut Education Commissioner Stephan Pryor in response to a recent
Censorship in prison and the chilling effects of surveillance on freedom of expression were at the forefront of the 2013 Banned Books Readout on Monday.
"To ban a book is to gag the writer and blindfold the reader. Neither is acceptable in a country where freedom of speech is treasured." - Wally Lamb
The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut is warning school officials in Torrington that a proposed policy censoring the speech of athletes at Torrington High School would violate the students’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
The death of a man early Tuesday morning after New Britain police Tasered him has prompted the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut to renew a call for meaningful Taser regulation.
The Winchester Board of Selectmen has abandoned a policy that prohibited “personal complaints or defamatory comments” from the public at its meetings after the ACLU of Connecticut warned that the policy was unconstitutional.