At any given time, the ACLU of RI is involved in dozens of legal battles on behalf of civil liberties in the Ocean State. Below is a list of many the cases we have worked on. For our annual case dockets, click here.
This is an open records lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Rhode Island in response to the City of Providence's refusal to release any documents related to its decision last year to bar a rapper from performing...
These are petitions in R.I. Superior Court for post conviction relief. The petitions claim that the R.I. Department of Corrections (DOC) is unlawfully keeping in prison two individuals who were convicted...
This is a lawsuit filed in RI Superior Court challanging the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training's refusal to provide the ACLU any documents in response to an Access to Public Records Act (APRA)...
This is a federal lawsuit on behalf of a man who spent almost eight months in solitary confinement at the ACI in retaliation for exercising his First Amendment rights.
