NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 3 -- The American Civil Liberties Union, a 501(c)3 non-profit that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: * * * - Over 450 Public Health and Legal Experts and Organizations Sign Open Letter to Government Officials on Achieving a Fair and Effective COVID-19 Response * * * Widespread transmission of the COVID-19 coronavirus within the United States is   more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- The American Studies Association issued the following news release: Voting in the ASA Election is now completed. The following members have been elected to three-year terms that shall last from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2023. President-elect Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut Council Courtney R. Baker, University of California at Riverside Ronak K. Kapadia, University of Illinois at Chicago Marisol LeBron, University of Texas at Austin Nitasha Sharma  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 3 -- The Connecticut Business and Industry Association issued the following news release: Hundreds of business leaders from across the state will converge on the state Capitol Wednesday, March 4 for Connecticut Business Day. They will hear from Gov. Ned Lamont and a number of state agency leaders, including the Department of Revenue Services' John Biello, Katie Dykes from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Josh Geballe from the Department of Adm  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, March 6 -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued the following news release: * * * - Participants to Discuss Experience with Leases Implementation * * * The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) announced the date of its public roundtable discussion on the implementation of its accounting standard on leases. The discussion will focus on broad technical issues, such as embedded leases and discount rates, that companies and organizations have found challen  more

WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 5 -- The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators issued the following news on March 4: Ahead of the spring Board of Directors meeting, Association officers and IACLEA staff conducted more than one dozen meetings on Capitol Hill, pressing for passage of the Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act of 2019. The goal is to finalize language and enact the bill before National Police Week 2020. Therefore, staff arranged meetings   more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 3 -- The Marijuana Policy Project issued the following news release: * * * - Lawmakers to Hold Public Hearing on Bill to End Marijuana Prohibition in Connecticut - Supporters of cannabis legalization hold a pre-hearing press conference * * * On Monday, the Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing on legislation that would end prohibition and regulate marijuana for adult use in Connecticut. In early February, Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney (D) and  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Free Press issued the following news release: On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr is scheduled to unveil a series of principles designed to undermine online free speech and privacy protections in the name of law enforcement. Barr's announcement is tied closely to plans by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) to introduce the EARN IT Act, a bill that threatens all online communications and the encryption technologi  more

NEWTOWN, Connecticut, March 3 -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation issued the following news release: The Davey Awards has recognized the National Shooting Sports Foundation(R)'s SHOT Show(R) with a Gold Davey Award in its Design/Print category for the SHOT Show's "Fully Loaded" print advertising. The award recognizes NSSF(R) and CSG Creative, NSSF's SHOT Show creative agency, for the recent 2020 show's print ad creative. The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Inter  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- The R Street Institute issued the following news release: The R Street Institute applauds the introduction of the Clean Slate Act introduced by Governor Lamont in Connecticut in February, as well as the introduction of an additional Clean Slate bill by Senator Winfield. Both bills would automate record expungements (called "absolute pardons" in Connecticut) for those who have been crime-free for seven years. While the bills vary in what offenses they cover, both are clean  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 2 -- Save the Children issued the following statement by Country Director in Afghanistan Onno van Manen on the reports that the U.S. government and the Afghan Taliban have signed an agreement to reduce hostilities: "Afghan children have been waiting decades for peace. Save the Children welcomes any sustained reduction in violence, but we also urge caution. The work is far from done and the real test will be intra-Afghan negotiations between the Taliban, Afghan gove  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 3 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: Save the Children is deeply concerned about reports that at least one child has died at sea during a perilous journey by boat to Lesbos, Greece. Children are among the thousands of people reportedly caught up in violent clashes at the Greek border with Turkey. A growing number of people including thousands of children are now stuck in limbo on the route from Turkey to Greece, with many sleeping outside in f  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 5 -- Save the Children issued the following news release on March 4: Conflict has forced nearly a million people, more than half of them children, to flee from 45 percent of Idlib governorate in North-West Syria, pushing them into inhumane living conditions in overcrowded camps. As the conflict enters its tenth year on March 15, 2020, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Save the Children and World Vision are releasing new analysis today looking at the civilian an  more