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May 23, 2008 -- ACLU Sues Narragansett Over "Orange Sticker" Policy
September 25, 2007 -- ACLU Settles Suit Against Rhode Island College for Censoring Reproductive Rights Sign Display
May 7, 2007 -- Groups Call On Public Schools to Reject "Dangerous" Sex Education Program
April 30, 2007 -- ACLU Brief Challenges Legality of Truancy Courts
February 6, 2007 -- ACLU Calls Rhode Island College Position That It Is Not Subject to the Constitution "Shocking"
January 19, 2007 -- Commissioner of Education Overturns Ban of Student Yearbook Photo
December 18, 2006 -- ACLU Says Department of Education Failed to Adequately Review Harmful Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Curriculum
December 11, 2006 -- ACLU Files Suit Challenging Ban of Student's Yearbook Photo
December 4, 2006 -- ACLU Files Free Speech Suit Against Rhode Island College for Censoring Reproductive Rights Sign Display
March 22, 2006 -- RI ACLU Hails Department of Education Action to Halt Use of Questionable “Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage” Curriculum in Public Schools
February 2, 2006 -- ACLU Responds to Secret Service Investigation of Student Essay
October 5, 2005 -- ACLU Files Open Record Lawsuit Against Foster-Glocester School District
August 31, 2005 -- Students' Rights to Withhold Information from Military Recruiters Not Being Adequately Protected, ACLU Survey Finds
March 23, 2005 -- Under Threat of ACLU Lawsuit, Providence School Reinstates Student Suspended For Photographing Principal
September 8, 2004 -- ACLU Calls on Rhode Island College to Immediately Revise "Hate Speech" Policies
May 27, 2004 -- ACLU Calls on URI to Halt Censorship of Professor's Website
February 27, 2004 -- ACLU Defends Roger Williams University College Republicans From Possible Charter Revocation Over Scholarship Controversy