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 a discrimination complaint filed with the RI Commission for Human Rights against RI Department of Human Services for illegally using an employee’s non-conviction criminal history to terminate her...
ACLU of Rhode Island cooperating attorneys have intervened in an inmate’s pro se legal action seeking to hold the state Department of Corrections (DOC) in contempt of court for violating a 47-year old...
This is a “friend of the court” brief, filed by the ACLU, in support of a legal challenge brought by the cities of Providence and Central Falls to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) policy conditioning the...
This is a lawsuit brought by the Barrington School Committee against the Rhode Island Department of Education and a middle school student who successfully challenged his three-day out-of-school suspension...
