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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.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut has joined five other organizations in a joint campaign urging Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) to sign on as co-sponsors of the Respect for Marriage Act, the bill that would overturn the so-called Defense of Marriage Act
The Connecticut Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in the case of William Coleman, an inmate seeking the right to refuse force-feedings by the state Department of Correction.
Emanuel Margolis, former chairman and legal advisor of the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut and a lifelong champion of civil rights, died Wednesday of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in Westport. He was 85.