Gov. Lamont Signed Three Laws Supporting LGBTQ Community
This year’s legislative session was one of the most successful for the LGBTQ community in Connecticut, state Rep. Jeff Currey said Tuesday at a ceremonial bill signing for three provisions …
CT Teens May Soon Be Able to Get HIV Prevention Medication Without Parental Consent
Dr. Krystn Wagner said young people who aren’t ready to reveal their sexual activity to family may not seek out something like PrEP if they need a parent’s consent. And …
CT Looks at Tackling Housing Issues to Treat Asthma
Alice Rosenthal, an attorney with the medical-legal partnership at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, oversaw the case. She said the family was great with keeping up with treatment and medical …
CT Attorney General Could Take Bigger Civil Rights Role
The ability of the Connecticut attorney general’s office to investigate and seek civil penalties for hate crimes and civil rights offenses would be clarified, expanded and codified in state law …
CT Adult Prisons a ‘War Zone’ for Youth Offenders
“Youth don’t belong in adult prison,” Goss said Monday morning as he waited to tell his story to a crowd of dozens gathered at the Capitol. “I’m here to speak …
Connecticut Youth Deserve a Clean Slate
The Connecticut legislature’s Judiciary Committee is considering a progressive bill, SB 691: An Act Concerning Erasure of Criminal Records, which would provide records erasure for adults with a criminal record …
Clean slate – automatic expungement of criminal records
Protecting the confidentiality of records is central to the juvenile justice system’s goal of rehabilitation. Connecticut law requires juvenile records to remain inaccessible to the public, but when a youth …
Bill would extend health insurance to 17,000 undocumented immigrant children
A state social service official and advocates for children, including an undocumented Brazilian mother with a GPS bracelet living in Bridgeport, came down on different sides of a debate over …
