Connecticut

CT Ends Death Penalty! One Big Step for a Small State; One Giant Step for our Society

By Tanya Greene, ACLU at 2:36pm
Connecticut has finally wiped its hands of that messy and sorrowful task of killing its own citizens. Today, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed legislation to repeal the ... Read More

ACLU Lens: Connecticut Poised to Become 17th State to Repeal Death Penalty

By Rachel Myers, ACLU at 4:58pm
The passage late Wednesday by the Connecticut House of a bill to repeal the death penalty is the latest sign of growing momentum in favor of ending the use of ... Read More

No Gaming the System When it Comes to Title IX

By Tiseme Zegeye, Women's Rights Project at 5:24pm
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the groundbreaking federal law passed in 1972 to eliminate sex discrimination in educational institutions that ... Read More

Racial Profiling is an Injustice Against Us All

By Dennis Parker, ACLU Racial Justice Program at 3:32pm
The announcement that the U.S. Justice Department has charged members of the East Haven, Connecticut Police Department with violating the civil rights of Latinos is ... Read More

Listen to Murder Victims' Families – Not in Our Name!

By Tanya Greene, ACLU at 3:34pm
When I was a child, my cousin was brutally murdered. As far as our family knows, the police never found his killer. A few years later, another cousin of mine was ... Read More

ACLU Files Brief Against Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking

By Catherine Crump, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 2:27pm
Today the ACLU, the ACLU of Connecticut and the Electronic Frontier Foundation once again took a stand against warrantless cell phone tracking, in a ... Read More
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