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Recent audits of the Connecticut State Police crime lab revive serious questions about the state's plan to begin an invasive DNA collection initiative on Oct. 1, 2011, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut has joined a massive coordinated national campaign demanding information on when, why and how law-enforcement agencies are using cellphone location data to track Americans.
Recent reductions at the Connecticut public defenders' office and additional cuts planned to meet budget shortfalls jeopardize the constitutional rights of defendants to a fair trial, according to the ACLU of Connecticut.
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Overzealous enforcement of a new rule to ban sexually explicit material in Connecticut prisons could result in the censorship of non-pornographic educational material for prisoners, according to the ACLU of Connecticut.
The General Assembly's action to include "gender identity or expression" in the state statutes barring discrimination is welcome, says Andrew Schneider, executive director of the ACLU-CT.