The data will help show how police use force, along with the demographics of those who are subjected to it.
University of Connecticut
Posted inPolitics
President Joe Biden comes to Connecticut for a friend, and human rights
President Joe Biden visited Connecticut to promote the hopes of his presidency and legacies of two former senators named Dodd.
Posted inPartner Content
Politics, personalities and the tumultuous departure of former UConn president Tom Katsouleas
Katsouleas’ departure was “about politics, about personalities … about all those things,” said state Sen. Derek Slap, D-West Hartford.
Posted inEducation
UConn issues COVID vaccine mandate for all employees
The mandate includes employees at UConn Health and at the university’s five campuses.
Posted inPartner Content
Emails offer clues behind UConn president Katsouleas’ departure
Before he resigned, UConn President Thomas Katsouleas butted heads with the university’s board on a handful of issues, emails show.
Posted inPartner Content
Hundreds of UConn students ask for vaccine exemptions
More than 800 want exemptions from the university’s coronavirus vaccine mandate. More than 500 have been granted.
Posted inMoney
Public sector pensions are prime beneficiary of federal COVID relief grants
More than six out of every 10 federal relief dollars built into the new state budget is earmarked for pensions.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Adapting to an uncertain climate future, Connecticut auditions new forests
Climate change is already impacting the state’s trees. Here’s what environmentalists are doing to mitigate the damage.
Posted inEducation
UConn will require students to be vaccinated against COVID
Students who are not fully vaccinated when they return to school will be placed in a “modified quarantine.”
Posted inEducation
Andrew Agwunobi appointed UConn interim president
The CEO of UConn Health is first person of color to hold the post.
Posted inEducation
UConn President Katsouleas resigns
Katsouleas submitted a resignation letter to the UConn Board of Trustees in March.
Posted inEconomic Development
UConn report: Don’t put federal relief funds under the mattress
The choice is between investing in the economy or spending federal aid on state and municipal budgets.
Posted inMoney
Auditors: UConn Hartford campus construction cost $30M more than budgeted
Construction and renovations combined originally were priced at $87 million. Final cost: $116.7 million.
Posted inEducation, Health
J&J vaccine ‘pause’ complicates campus clinics, but the big question remains: Should colleges require vaccinations?
The COVID vaccines are authorized for “emergency use,” making the legality of mandates murky
Posted inTransportation
Funding to fix CT’s roads and bridges is drying up, and officials don’t have a solution
Connecticut’s transportation building program is on a financial diet after a five-year ramp-up after lawmakers rejected tolls.