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Mar 6, 2025

Artists Mount First Amendment Challenge to New Grant Requirements for National Endowment for the Arts

Artists and theater groups have today filed a lawsuit challenging a new certification requirement for National Endowment for the Arts’ grants that requires applicants to attest that they will not “promote...

Feb 26, 2025

ACLU Report Urges Improvement in Municipal Practices Governing the Public’s Remote Access to Public Meetings

The ACLU of Rhode Island today released a report examining the practices of city and town councils and school committees in providing the public remote access to their meetings, and said there was a need...

Feb 13, 2025

ACLU and RWU Law School Clinic Seek Emergency Relief Over ACI’s Failure to Accommodate Muslim Prisoners’ Religious Freedom

A lawsuit filed today by attorneys for the RWU Prisoners’ Rights Clinic and the ACLU of RI challenges the R.I. Department of Corrections’ restrictive policies governing the religious freedom of Muslims...

Feb 3, 2025

ACLU Calls on Glocester School District to Halt Arbitrary Restrictions on Student Access to Books

the ACLU of RI sent a letter to Glocester school district Superintendent Renee Palazzo, urging her to rescind directives she issued to the Fogarty Memorial School’s librarians to allow students to check out...

Jan 29, 2025

ACLU Slams Brown University’s Ongoing Suspension of Pro-Palestinian Student Group; Calls for Immediate Reinstatement

In a letter sent today to Brown University President Christina Paxson and other members of the University administration, the ACLU of Rhode Island and its student chapter condemned the school’s three-month-...

Jan 27, 2025

In Light of Trump Threats, ACLU Calls on Rhode Island Municipalities to Enact Model Immigrant Protection Ordinance

The ACLU of Rhode Island today urged municipal officials to adopt a comprehensive ordinance designed to protect their immigrant communities from constitutionally dubious federal actions and pronouncements...

Letter to municipalities urging adoption of immigration ordinances