Posted: May 16, 2013
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Four open government organizations today called on Governor Lincoln Chafee to amend legislation he has introduced that would make secret a wide array of government documents and discussions relating to school safety. In a letter to the Governor, the R.I. Press Association, the New England First Amendment Coalition, the ACLU of Rhode Island, and Common Cause Rhode Island called the legislation “a major step backward for parental involvement in critical school matters and for the public’s right to know.”
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Posted: May 02, 2013
|Category: Civil Rights Discrimination LGBT Rights
“This is a tremendous victory for the thousands of loving and committed couples and their families in Rhode Island who can now get the recognition and protection that only marriage can provide,” said James Esseks, director of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Project, “This was the result of years of hard work, and we will keep working with our partners to continue the fight to realize the freedom to marry for families across the country.”
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Posted: Apr 04, 2013
|Category: Open Government
The ACLU of Rhode Island issued a statement today in response to the consideration of legislation by the General Assembly that would amend current laws addressing school safety plans.
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Posted: Mar 25, 2013
|Category: Free Speech
Ruling in an ACLU lawsuit, U.S. District Judge William Smith has held that Providence police violated the free speech rights of a local resident when she was barred from peacefully leafleting on a public sidewalk in front of a building where then-Mayor David Cicilline was speaking.
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Posted: Mar 18, 2013
|Category: Free Speech Students' Rights
The ACLU is troubled by the actions taken by Warwick school officials against students for tweets they sent to RIDE Commissioner Deborah Gist in response to the controversy surrounding RIDE’s high stakes testing requirement. Without in any way condoning the immature nature of some of the tweets, we believe Warwick school officials have intervened in this controversy in a manner much greater than is appropriate.
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Posted: Mar 11, 2013
|Category: Open Government
Common Cause/RI and the ACLU of Rhode Island issued a statement today regarding the controversy over the Governor’s refusal to publicly release a report he commissioned on Medicaid and food stamp fraud.
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Posted: Mar 11, 2013
|Category: Free Speech Students' Rights
The websites of PBS Kids and National Stop Bullying Day, a video clip of the Nutcracker ballet, a website on global warming, and a popular book reading recommendation site are among the many online sites that students and teachers have been unable to access at public schools in Rhode Island due to the use of so-called Internet filtering software.
That is one of the findings of a report issued today by the ACLU of Rhode Island, which documents how use of this flawed software has hindered teachers from making use of the Internet to educate students and has hampered students from accessing relevant information in the classroom. The report offers a number of recommendations to ameliorate the harm caused by these programs, including the passage of state legislation to promote transparency in the use of the filters.
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