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.
As the legacy of legislation has shown throughout the years, oftentimes a facially neutral policy can have devastating consequences on certain demographics -- a fact that has been shown time and time again...
Lengthy prison sentences are often counter-productive, extremely expensive to the taxpaying public, harmful to families, and undermine rehabilitation. As such, we supported legislation which would allow...
We strongly opposed legislation which would make it unlawful for a person in the custody of the department of corrections to use "any force or weapon to resist a lawful request or directive." We argued that...
While we have a long history of opposition to camera-enforced traffic laws, school bus cameras can serve a very focused and limited purpose that does not raise the same level of concern as other traffic...
We strongly opposed legislation which would essentially immunize virtually all medical professionals, licensed or in training, support staff, and institutions from providing basic and necessary medical care...
At the core of our constitutional freedom is the right to self-determination, both throughout one's life and at the very end of it. Legislation supported by the ACLU would allow for certain terminally ill...