Criminal Background Checks
In some tension with its passage of “ban the box” legislation, the General Assembly this year continued its trend of pushing to impose criminal background checks on applicants for a number of employment and...
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.
In some tension with its passage of “ban the box” legislation, the General Assembly this year continued its trend of pushing to impose criminal background checks on applicants for a number of employment and...
Legislation aimed to restore representation in Rhode Island to “one person, one vote” by requiring, for the purposes of redistricting, prisoners to be identified as living at their last known address.
Following a flurry of election-related legislation passed by the General Assembly over the last two years, it was unsurprising that the elections of 2012 were riddled with problems. The ACLU of RI...
The ACLU of RI is again working with student and education groups to stop high-stakes testing from keeping otherwise qualified students from graduating.
The ACLU of RI testified in February before the House Health, Education and Welfare committee in opposition to legislation allowing school committees to charge fees to those students participating in...
In February, the ACLU of RI testified before the House Corporations committee in favor of legislation barring health insurance companies from using gender as a factor in setting premiums.