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.
We opposed legislation which would allow municipalities to record liens against a person's property if they failed to pay any municipal fines -- including for parking violations or minor offenses like...
Individuals who are released from prison face an alarmingly high risk of suicide or overdose in the weeks following their release. In fact, a policy brief from the Prison Policy Initiative noted that "...
The ACLU of Rhode Island supports the continued efforts to strengthen protections against security breaches and to protect the data and information of all Rhode Islanders. As such, we supported legislation...
The ACLU of Rhode Island has a strong interest in monitoring the growing use of artificial intelligence in decision-making, especially in light of the potential impact of discrimination in its application....
The acute need for healthy, equitable, safe, and accessible housing and robust tenant protections has become abundantly clear in Rhode Island. For this reason, the ACLU of Rhode Island supported a group of...
This legislation would prohibit a minor from soliciting or possessing a nude or semi-nude depiction of another minor, a practice commonly known as "sexting." While we fully support the goal of this bill,...