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Ten civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, have asked the state police and the chief executives of Connecticut cities, towns and two major universities to investigate the New York Police Department's unlawful racial profiling and surveillance of M
Seth Groody believed that wearing an anti-gay T-shirt to Wolcott High School last year was protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Now, Wolcott Public Schools have acknowledged that he was right. Attorney Christine L.
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.