Posted: Jan 31, 2018
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Earlier this week, we released a report about RI lawmaking on crimes and penalties which found a disturbing mess of arbitrary, unfair and costly new laws and sentences.
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Posted: Jan 15, 2018
|Category: Civil Rights Category: Discrimination Category: Racial/Ethnic Discrimination Category: Fair Administration of Justice Category: Police Practices Category: The "War on Drugs"
It’s MLK Day. In the spirit of racial justice, here’s a quick look back at several older ACLU of RI cases defending racial and ethnic equality.
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Posted: Jan 12, 2018
|Category: Open Government Category: Privacy
Journalists, activists, critics of the government and other marginalized groups know that a government with the ability to spy unchecked means being targeted for simply doing your job, or expressing yourself as the Constitution guarantees.
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Posted: Jan 04, 2018
|Category: Free Speech Category: Students' Rights
Imagine a school administrator telling a high school political science teacher that a whole range of timely topics – for example, medical marijuana, terrorism in the Middle East, gun control, or even politics in general – was off-limits for class discussion.
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Posted: Dec 28, 2017
|Category: Active Case Category: Criminal Justice Category: Discrimination Category: LGBT Rights Category: Racial/Ethnic Discrimination Category: Rights of the Disabled Category: Rights of the Poor Category: Due Process Category: Fair Administration of Justice Category: Immigration Category: Medical Marijuana Category: Open Government Category: Police Practices Category: Privacy Category: Students' Rights Category: The "War on Drugs" Category: Voting Rights Category: Workplace Rights
We work tirelessly to protect civil liberties all year round. Here’s a look at the top issues – including some big victories and losses – of 2017.
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Posted: Dec 04, 2017
|Category: Due Process Category: Fair Administration of Justice Category: Police Practices
Nobody likes getting pulled over by the police, but when even the police officers making the stops are doing it against their will, something is seriously wrong. Welcome to the world of traffic ticket quotas.
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Posted: Nov 08, 2017
|Category: Active Case Category: Discrimination Category: Gender Discrimination Category: LGBT Rights Category: Racial/Ethnic Discrimination Category: Fair Administration of Justice Category: Immigration Category: Open Government
This time a year ago, we were digesting the election results and hoping that the Trump presidency wouldn’t be based on the same hateful ideas that made up much of his campaign. By February, we had stopped hoping and were hard at work trying to protect Rhode Island’s immigrant communities. And that was just the beginning...
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Posted: Oct 27, 2017
|Category: Discrimination Category: Racial/Ethnic Discrimination Category: Rights of the Poor Category: Open Government Category: Voting Rights
Yesterday a federal court ordered the release of information highlighting that Kris Kobach - the head of President Trump’s “Commission on Election Integrity,” - is dead set on undermining voting rights. Unfortunately, similar attempts to make voting harder are also happening locally.
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Posted: Sep 29, 2017
|Category: Open Government
Yesterday, Governor Gina Raimondo signed into law a bill providing for the release of various state records from the investigation of the 38 Studios scandal.
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Posted: Sep 27, 2017
|Category: Free Speech
A children’s picture book. About real-life penguins. Trying desperately to create a family...is “anti-family” and “unsuitable for the age group.”
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