Every year, the ACLU of RI lobbies on hundreds of bills during Rhode Island's annual Legislative Session. Below are some of the bills we have tracked and testified on before the General Assembly. For more info on advocating for the issues you care about, check out our Advocacy 101 Guide. To see how your Reps and Senators voted on various bills over the past few years, visit our Legislative Scorecards page.
While ensuring a healthy workplace is a laudable goal, we opposed a piece of far-reaching and subjective legislation which imposes liability on employers or co-workers who, among other actions, "confuse" a...
As an important piece of criminal justice reform legislation, this bill would slightly redefine in two ways the definitions of “felony” and “misdemeanor” in Rhode Island law.
First, this bill would...
The R.I. Supreme Court has held that, without legislative authorization, the state Constitution’s Declaration of Rights is not enforceable. We therefore strongly supported this bill which would provide long...
When virtual education became ubiquitous at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, issues of student privacy on school-loaned devices rightly crept to the forefront of public conversation. ...
This provision in the Governor's proposed budget would expand the scope, reach, and use of the Rhode Island Longitudinal Data System, allowing for greater sharing of vast amounts of data among state...
Under this legislation, licensed cannabis sellers would be required to post signs warning that the consumption of marijuana during pregnancy poses a risk to infant development. This bill unintentionally...