Bringing together community stakeholders and law enforcement to improve roadway safety through fair and equitable traffic enforcement

The Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Prohibition Act (Public Act 99-198), prohibits the stopping, detention, interdiction, or search of an individual by a police officer on the basis, in whole or in part, by considerations of race, color, ethnicity, age, gender, or sexual orientation, except when such consideration of race, color, ethnicity, age, gender, or sexual orientation is used in combination with other information seeking to apprehend a specific suspect whose race, color, ethnicity, age, or gender is part of the description of the suspect (Connecticut General Statutes Sections 54-1l). The law was named to honor the legacy of the late senator Alvin W. Penn of Bridgeport, Connecticut who championed the legislation in Connecticut.