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.
Because we believe body-worn cameras can promote accountability in the correctional setting and serve as a useful oversight tool both for correctional officers and for those who are incarcerated, we...
We supported legislation which would increase the current daily wges for incarcerated workers from $3 per day to $5 per day. For someone facing release, the only financial resources that they may have at...
We know from our experience that many victims of police misconduct do not file complaints, either because they believe it will be futile, or because they are fearful of retaliation. We also know that...
In 2019, Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls reentered into a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house and detain individuals for civil immigration violations. We were...
We opposed legislation which would make it a felony, punishable by five years in prison, for two individuals associated with each other to shoplift a piece of merchandise. As it currently stands, a person...
We opposed legislation which would make it a crime punishable by ten years in prison for any child in the custody of either the Training School or a juvenile program worker to convey to another person ...