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A proposed lease between the city of Stamford and St. Clement's Parish for public school instructional space, which prohibits certain topics of classroom discussion on purely religious grounds, would violate the First Amendment.
The Connecticut Civil Rights Coalition urged police chiefs across Connecticut to address racial profiling and the state legislature to strengthen the law against it in the wake of the indictments of three police officers and a sergeant on charges of violating the civil rights of Latino people in
In a crucial victory for civil liberties, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that police in Washington, D.C., violated the Fourth Amendment when they attached a GPS tracking device to a suspect's vehicle without a valid warrant.
Renewed efforts to legalize the use of traffic light cameras in Connecticut, announced recently in New Haven, raise the same troubling questions about due process, fairness and privacy that previous, unsuccessful campaigns failed to answer.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced today that he is committed to enforcing the law to eliminate racial profiling, a stand that the ACLU of Connecticut applauds and endorses.
Racial profiling is illegal in Connecticut but the state has never made a serious or consistent effort to comply with a law to collect data about it, Sandra Staub, legal director of the ACLU of Connecticut, told a civil rights panel on Tuesday.