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A federal appeals court has upheld part of a 2020 Connecticut police accountability law that allows public disclosure of state trooper personnel files and internal investigations. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Thursday rejected a challenge by the Connecticut State Police Union, which argued the law violates the 2018-2022 troopers’ contract by stripping away its…

Those opposed to the newly signed Police Accountability Bill stood united on the steps of the Capitol on Saturday morning. Current and former police officers along with other community members say they believe the bill was rushed and thought lawmakers needed more time to find a solution to handle police misconduct. Some of the demonstrators believe that police departments and…

Gov. Ned Lamont signed the controversial police accountability bill Friday, but the work is hardly done.

Governor Lamont on Friday signed into law the state’s controversial police accountability bill.

Governor Ned Lamont signed the recently-passed police accountability bill into law Friday afternoon. He was joined by the lieutenant governor and members of the General Assembly, including State Rep. Brandon McGee, and State Rep. Anthony Nolan, who is also a New London police officer. Read the full text of the bill here. The state Senate passed the controversial police accountability…

The State Senate passed the controversial police accountability bill early Wednesday morning and the governor said he is prepared to sign it.

While portions of the new police accountability bill just passed by the General Assembly will take effect immediately after the governor signs it into law, some sections will actually take years to go into effect. The first order of business will be for the Police Occupational Standards and Training Council (POST) to create new training manuals and guidelines for police…

Early Wednesday morning, the bill was passed by the Senate after a vote of 21 to 15.

The state Senate passed the controversial police accountability bill early Wednesday morning after a debate that started on Tuesday evening. The bill passed after a vote of 21 to 15. The state House of Representatives passed the bill on July 23 and the bill now goes to the governor. You can read the bill here.

The state Senate has passed the controversial police accountability bill early Wednesday morning after it began debating it on Tuesday evening.

The discussions continues as many call for police accountability and transparency in Connecticut.

The Senate is set to take up the debate over a controversial police accountability bill today.  The 71-page bill passed the House of Representatives after hours of emotional debate last week. The special session begins in the Senate at 10:30 a.m.  The Police Transparency & Accountability Task Force is holding a meeting and a subcommittee meeting today.  It’s unclear...

The state House of Representatives passed the police accountability bill on Friday.

On Hartford’s Trinity Street, volunteers painted a Black Lives Matter mural outside the State Capitol, where just hours earlier lawmakers ended a marathon middle-of-the-night debate over police accountability that ended with the passage of a sweeping reform bill. “This is for the betterment of all humans not just black lives. All people are affected by police brutality,” said Michael Oretade,...

Connecticut lawmakers were warned Friday that a wide-ranging police accountability bill, which would allow officers to be personally sued in certain circumstances for violating someone’s civil rights, will have serious ramifications, including discouraging recruitment of new officers and prompting many existing ones to resign or retire. Andrew Matthews, president of the Connecticut State Police Union, told members of the...

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