HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 29 (TNStalk) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following statement on June 28, 2023: * * * The Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project today released the results of its investigation into Connecticut State Police traffic stop records. That audit revealed that in recent years: * Connecticut State Police submitted at least 25,966 false and inaccurate traffic stop records; * the majority of all Connecticut State Police troops (  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CT), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the alleged physical attack on state Rep. Maryam Khan and her family while they were attending Eid al-Adha (EED-AL-ODD-HA) prayers at the XL Center in Hartfo  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 28 (TNSper) -- The Connecticut Health Foundation issued the following news release: The Connecticut Health Foundation elected Chekesha Kidd as chair of its board of directors. She succeeds Kenneth R. Alleyne in chairing the board of Connecticut's largest independent health foundation. The foundation also named Getty Atienza and Kristie Kuhl to its board of directors, and awarded $315,000 in grants this quarter. Kidd is the founder of Kinumi, a health and lifestyle   more

DOVER, Delaware, July 1 (TNSgov) -- Consumer Reports issued the following news release on June 30, 2023: Today, the Delaware General Assembly advanced a new privacy bill supported by Consumer Reports. If the bill is signed into law by Governor John Carney, Delaware would become the 12th state, after California, Utah, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Montana, Florida, and Texas to extend baseline privacy rights to consumers, including the right to access, delete, and st  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, June 28 (TNSpp) -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued the following news on June 27, 2023: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today published a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) intended to improve the accounting for purchased financial assets. Stakeholders are encouraged to review and provide input on the proposed ASU by August 28, 2023. Since the issuance of the credit losses standard in 2016, the FASB has monitored and assisted stakeh  more

DANBURY, Connecticut, June 28 (TNSrpt) -- The National Organization for Rare Disorders issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: The Galactosemia Foundation and the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)(R) today announced they have jointly published the galactosemia community's first "Voice of the Patient" report. This report provides a comprehensive overview of patient and caregiver experiences with this rare metabolic disease, which currently has no approved treatment opti  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 (TNSper) -- The Water Environment Federation issued the following news release: Naomi Park of Greenwich, Connecticut, has been named the national winner of the 2023 U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP). Park's research explored collecting Styrofoam debris in the ocean and then using that collected material as a filter to reduce ocean carbon levels. This simultaneously addresses two water issues and illustrates the need to think outside the box on global water issues. Pa  more