Learn how to lobby your legislators on civil liberties issues. We’ll share tips and ideas for effectively communicating with legislators and talking about legislative priorities for 2015, including:
• Police militarization. We need
transparency and oversight when police acquire military equipment and
use it in SWAT deployments.
• Due process. Let’s get the
“transfer statute” repealed so the state can’t put children in prison
without criminal charges or trial, as it did to Jane Doe.
• Privacy rights. Police should have
to get a warrant before they fly a surveillance drone into your back
yard or get records of your phone calls and movements.
• Aid in dying. Mentally competent,
terminally ill patients deserve the right to make their own choices
about how to die.
• Youth and student rights. We need
clear agreements with police officers assigned to schools to reduce
criminalization of typical student behavior and cut racial disparities
in arrests.
Coffee and registration will begin at 9:30 a.m.
in the Old Judiciary Room in the Capitol building at 210 Capitol Avenue
in Hartford.
R.S.V.P by contacting:
AAAC Information Officer, Earl Bloodworth at: earl.bloodworth@cga.ct.gov or Connecticut Field Organizer Isa Mujahid, imujahid@acluct.org
Earl L. R. Bloodworth
Information Officer
African-American Affairs Commission
210 Capitol Avenue - Room 509
Hartford, CT 06106
(860) 240-0114
Information Officer
African-American Affairs Commission
210 Capitol Avenue - Room 509
Hartford, CT 06106
(860) 240-0114
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
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