A team of students from Yale Law School's Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) submitted written and oral testimony to the Connecticut Labor and Public Employees Committee on March 10 in support of S.B. 435, an act to regulate automated employment-related decision systems. The students were testifying on behalf of the Connecticut AFL-CIO and recommended stronger transparency and enforcement to guard against discriminatory outcomes. "S.B. 435 offers a chance to change that and take a step towards the economic future that Connecticut needs," the students wrote.
The testimony focuses on three enforcement and governance pillars embedded in S.B. 435: disclosure, accountability, and limits on public-sector use. Under the bill employers would have to disclose when they use automated employment-related decision processes and report any adverse actions taken based on those systems. The bill explicitly affirms that algorithmic discrimination is still discrimination and would prevent state agencies from deploying AI that "materially affect[s] Connecticut residents' rights, liberties, and public benefits" without legal authorization. The students highlighted the bill's vesting of investigatory and enforcement authority in the Attorney General and proposed tightening provisions around meaningful human oversight and transparency.
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