Threat Assessment Teams (H 5538, S 818)
This legislation creates threat assessment teams for each school in Rhode Island and allows individual school boards to adopt relevant policies for their implementation.
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This legislation creates threat assessment teams for each school in Rhode Island and allows individual school boards to adopt relevant policies for their implementation.
We testified in favor of this critical legislation, noting that open and equal access is a cornerstone to the ubiquitously used and indispensable medium of the internet.
The ACLU once again supported legislation to require all prisoners to be counted, for voting purposes only, at their last known address.
This “equal pay” legislation, supported by the ACLU and many other groups, is essential to not only promote the growth of our state, but to provide economic mobility for women, and women of color in...
This legislation would have ensured that a positive drug test cannot become a roundabout way of firing or refusing to employ a patient who is lawfully using medical marijuana.
Legislation supported by the ACLU would have allowed for certain terminally ill patients to make knowing and competent decisions about death and peacefully determine the end of their lives with dignity,...