The ACLU of Connecticut filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request April 26 to all Connecticut police departments seeking every alternative, police-commissioned study of traffic stop data.

The statewide ACLU noted that in legislative testimony, the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association (CPCA) wrote that some Connecticut police departments had commissioned studies that contradicted the state's own traffic stop data findings that have shown racial disparities in traffic enforcement statewide.

During an April 21 Racial Profiling Prohibition Project Advisory Board meeting, the CPCA representative, according to the ACLU, wouldn't identify which departments had commissioned the alternative studies and would not share their results. The ACLU said the information regards an issue of vital public interest.