HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 12 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following statement by Executive Director David McGuire in response to coronavirus, Connecticut government announced that the state will be placed in a state of public health emergency: * * * - ACLU of Connecticut Comment on State of Connecticut Response to Coronavirus * * * "It is essential that the State of Connecticut's response to COVID-19 protect public health, safety, and civil liberties for  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 13 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following news release: In the wake of confirmed cases in Connecticut of coronavirus/COVID-19, the ACLU of Connecticut called for state officials to take action to protect incarcerated people, corrections employees, and the general public by reducing the use of imprisonment in Connecticut. "Given the CDC's warnings about avoiding confined spaces and the threat COVID-19 poses to elderly people and th  more

HAMDEN, Connecticut, March 10 -- The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute issued the following news release: * * * - More Disapprove of Trump's Response to Coronavirus * * * In the wake of Super Tuesday and as the Democratic contest has narrowed to essentially a two-person race, 54 percent of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic say they would like to see former Vice President Joe Biden win the Democratic nomination for president, while 35 percent would like to see Senator Berni  more

EAST HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 10 -- The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology issued the following news release: Deep Learning solutions, a technological phenomenon characterized by a reliance on artificial neural networks, are affecting a growing number of industries. Deep Learning will be the topic at the first teCTalk, a new series for individuals in Connecticut's technology industries and those aspiring to be, beginning this month. Coordinated by the Connecticut Center for Advanced  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 11 -- The U.S. Dairy Export Council issued the following news release: Connecticut dairy farmer, James "Cricket" Jacquier, testified before the House Committee on Agriculture's Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture in order to provide a dairy stakeholder perspective on agricultural trade. Jacquier is Chairman of the Board for Agri-Mark, a dairy cooperative comprised of 850 farm families across New England and New York. Agri-Mark is a member of the National  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, March 12 -- The Financial Accounting Foundation issued the following statement: The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) announced the appointment of Ricky Hatch, Kevin Smith, and Karen Wiesman to the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council (GASAC). The GASAC advises the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) on strategic and technical issues, project priorities, and other matters that affect standard- setting. The GASAC provid  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, March 13 -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued the following news release: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that provides temporary optional guidance to ease the potential burden in accounting for reference rate reform. "This new ASU provides stakeholders with the guidance they need to ease the process of migrating away from LIBOR and other interbank offered rates to new reference rates," said FASB Ch  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, March 10 -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued the following news release: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that makes narrow-scope improvements to various aspects of the financial instruments guidance, including the current expected credit losses (CECL) standard issued in 2016. The ASU is part of the FASB's ongoing Codification improvement project aimed at clarifying specific areas of accounting guid  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, March 13 -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued the following news release: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today postponed the date of its public roundtable discussion on the implementation of its accounting standard on leases. The roundtable (originally set for April 9) has been rescheduled to Monday, May 18, 2020, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time at the FASB offices located at 401 Merritt 7 in Norwalk, Connecticut. Observer  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release on March 13: Given the emerging threat posed by the spread of COVID-19, Governor Phil Murphy should call for an immediate moratorium on water shutoffs across the state, and to restore service to households that were previously cut off. Major cities across the country are moving to stop shutoffs, most notably Detroit, Phoenix, New Orleans and Atlanta. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced a statewi  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The Free Press issued the following news release: On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will convene a hearing on the EARN IT Act, a bill that threatens all online communications and the encryption technologies used to secure those conversations. Introduced by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), the legislation would open a door to online-content screening by a governmental commission serving under U.S. Attorney General   more

DARIEN, Connecticut, March 12 -- Friends of Animals issued the following news release: The refusal of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take action to protect elephants from a skin trade that has depleted the population of pachyderms is jeopardizing their chances to survive as a species, Friends of Animals stated in a recent lawsuit filed by its Wildlife Law Program in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. The elephant population in Africa has been so depleted they have been listed as thr  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, March 10 -- The Governmental Accounting Standards Board issued the following news release: The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) issued a proposed Statement that would increase consistency and comparability related to the reporting of fiduciary component units in circumstances in which the organization does not have a governing board and the primary government performs the duties that a governing board typically performs. The Exposure Draft, Certain Component  more

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 10 -- Keep America Beautiful issued the following news release: * * * - National Nonprofit Provides Grant Funding, Resources; 2019 Program Delivered Average Reduction in Cigarette Butt Litter of 50 Percent * * * Keep America Beautiful(R), the nation's largest community improvement nonprofit organization, announced the opening of the grant application period for the 2020 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP), designed to help communities combat the most commo  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 11 -- The National Milk Producers Federation issued the following news release: Connecticut dairy farmer, James "Cricket" Jacquier, testified before the House Committee on Agriculture's Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture in order to provide a dairy stakeholder perspective on agricultural trade. Jacquier is Chairman of the Board for Agri-Mark, a dairy cooperative comprised of 850 farm families across New England and New York. Agri-Mark is a member of the  more

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Connecticut, March 14 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release: As schools across the county are closing in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, TeachKind--PETA's humane education division--is encouraging parents to take advantage of its free online educational resources, activities, and lesson plans for students of all ages, including reading comprehension exercises for kids in grades K-12 and dozens of writing prompts for middle and high  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 12 -- Save the Children issued the following news release on March 11: Gender Fair(R), the world's first consumer rating system for gender equality, announced that Save the Children is Gender Fair-certified, making the global humanitarian organization the first nonprofit and first non-governmental organization (NGO) to achieve this designation. Gender Fair's certification is based on a proprietary methodology derived from the UN Women's Empowerment Principles. Gen  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 10 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: * * * - Former Chemonics International CFO Eric Howell joins as Chief Operating Officer and former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation executive Greg Ferrante joins as Chief Financial Officer * * * Save the Children U.S. announced that Eric Howell will join the organization as chief operating officer and Greg Ferrante will join as chief financial officer. Howell's appointment is effective and Ferrante will t  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 11 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: One year after Cyclone Idai left a trail of destruction across parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, nearly 100,000 people continue to live in makeshift shelters; and are alarmingly vulnerable to future climate shocks. International aid agencies CARE International, Oxfam and Save the Children are warning that without greater climate financing and action on climate change at the global level, it will be  more

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 13 -- SoldierStrong, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing advanced medical technologies to veterans, issued the following news: SoldierStrong, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing revolutionary medical technologies to help injured veterans lead full lives, announced a year-long partnership with Honor and Respect to benefit veterans throughout the country living with post-traumatic stress. Honor and Respect is a Marion, Iowa, firm laun  more