Legislation

As a matter of making police interactions for individuals with cognitive and communication-related disabilities safer and respectful of their unique needs, we supported legislation that will require training of police officers in responding to individuals with disabilities.

In the interest of proactively and preemptively restricting the use of new technology which could harm communities, we testified in favor of legislation which would have generally barred the use of “robot dogs” by law enforcement.

We supported legislation that would have made individual employee-supervisors, and not just the company employing them, subject to personal liability for their own acts of discrimination.

We opposed the legislation because its breadth and statutory coverage potentially interfered with the free speech rights of employers and, just as importantly, the rights of other employees to be free of a hostile work environment.

We opposed this resolution which would have called for a federal constitutional convention with the goal of passing constitutional amendments that would “impose restraints on the federal government.”

We strongly supported legislation sponsored by the Lieutenant Governor which would limit the circumstances under which housing providers can demand information about a tenant’s past criminal history, and would further restrict the scope of the information that can be considered.

We testified in favor of this critical legislation to protect net neutrality and noted that open and equal access is a cornerstone of the ubiquitously used and indispensable medium of the internet.

We urged enactment of a bill which would have provided specific technological privacy protections for students while they are using school-loaned devices.

We supported this bill which would have prevented landlords from inquiring about the immigration status of their tenants or potential tenants, noting that this legislation is critical for ensuring that families with undocumented members can maintain housing without fear.