HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 30 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following news release on July 29: The Connecticut General Assembly senate voted 21-15 to approve a bill regarding police accountability. The senate's decision followed last week's 86-58 house of representatives vote approving the bill. With senate approval, the bill passes the Connecticut General Assembly and awaits action from Governor Ned Lamont. The following is a reaction from Melvin Medina, pub  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 30 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following news release: The Connecticut Senate yesterday voted 35-1 to approve a bill regarding absentee voting by mail for November's general election. The Senate's decision followed last week's 144-2 House of Representatives vote approving the bill. With yesterday's Senate approval, the bill passes the Connecticut General Assembly and awaits action from Governor Ned Lamont. The following is a react  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 1 -- Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a campaign of Everytown for Gun Safety, issued the following news on July 31: Governor Ned Lamont, and the Connecticut chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both a part of Everytown for Gun Safety grassroots networks, released the following statements on the signing of police reform legislation that will increase police accountability and transparency, championed by Connecticut's Black and Puerto   more

WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 30 -- The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators issued the following news: Just in time for the Virtual Annual Conference, IACLEA in mid-June released its new virtual training platform, the Online Education Center (OEC). Now the centerpiece of IACLEA's year-round training offerings, the Online Education Center is IACLEA's new tool to provide campus public safety and police personnel with a low-cost, easy-access training option. G  more

BETHEL, Connecticut, July 28 -- The Journal of Vibration and Control, a peer-reviewed journal of analytical, computational and experimental studies of vibration phenomena and their control from the Society of Experimental Mechanics, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2020 edition: Articles: * A frequency domain blind identification method for operational modal analysis using a limited number of sensors * Repetitive accuracy degradation of numerical control r  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 1 -- The National Day Laborer Organizing Network issued the following news release: As DHS abuses are exposed in Portland, and reports of deadly conditions continue in ICE detention camps, groups in Massachusetts and Connecticut are calling on their representatives in Congress to take immediate action to prevent more harm, and cut off all funds in the region to the nativist Sheriff of Bristol County, MA - Thomas Hodgson - in order to protect the lives of people in hi  more

TORRINGTON, Connecticut, Aug. 1 -- The Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation issued the following news: The Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Women & Girls Fund has awarded $5,000 in grants in support of two local child care centers that are working to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 at their facilities. Winsted Area Child Care Center was awarded $2,500 toward their Northwest Corner Gives crowdfunding goal to help cover increased operating expenses needed for renovations, PPE, a  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, July 28 -- Save the Children issued the following statement by Country Director Milan Dinic: Following the release of the UN's Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict Midyear Report on Afghanistan, Save the Children has issued the following statement. * * * "Afghanistan's conflict is taking a terrible toll on the country's children, at least 340 of whom lost their lives since January. More than 700 were wounded, many with life-changing injuries like amputations or he  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, July 31 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: Children in Gaza are dying as they are denied urgent healthcare outside Gaza, and more will die if they are not treated soon, Save the Children is warning. Following the announcement of Israel's plans to annex parts of the West Bank, the already extremely restricted access for medical patients to leave Gaza for life-saving care was further reduced due to the end of coordination between Israeli and Palestini  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, July 29 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: The collapsing Lebanese economy has pushed more than half a million children in Beirut into a struggle for survival or even hunger, a new analysis by Save the Children showed . Their families cannot afford the basic food, electricity, cooking fuel, hygiene and water needed to survive. In the Greater Beirut area, 910,000 people, including 564,000 children, do not have enough money to buy the basic essentials  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, July 31 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: A spike in tribal violence in western Darfur in Sudan has cut off more than 14,000 children from life-saving health services, as Save the Children was forced to close two health facilities and its field office in Masterei. The health facilities were the only two centers that provided health and nutrition services for children in the area. Earlier this week in Masterei, sixty people were reportedly killed in  more

ARLINGTON, Texas, July 29 -- The Mensa Education and Research Foundation issued the following news release: Kenneth S. Walters, an Associate Professor of Psychology at Southern Connecticut State University, is the 2020 winner of the Mensa Foundation's Distinguished Teacher Award. Dr. Walters' research focuses on mental and behavioral health among college students, and since 2012, he has mentored 45 student research assistants, including Mensan Paul McKee, who nominated Dr. Walters for the awar  more