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 Scorecardspage.
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Mar 7, 2004
Internet Subpoenas
Privacy
Position: Oppose
For the third year in a row, Affiliate lobbying helped defeat a bill, based in part on a USA Patriot Act provision, to give local law enforcement authorities broad authority to obtain from Internet service...
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Mar 7, 2004
Video Voyeurism
First Amendment
Position: Needs amendments
Responding to ACLU free speech concerns, the legislature significantly amended a bill to ban “video voyeurism” before approving it.