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.
Rhode Island's Access to Public Records Act has not been amended in over a decade, and this legislation would update and strengthen this critical statute which upholds the public's "right to know." The...
We opposed legislation which seeks to expand the circumstances to require mandatory prison sentences for driving without a license. Currently, the statute makes it a misdemeanor for a person to drive...
Following the widespread and surreptitious installation across the state of deceptively named "automated license plate reader" cameras that actually have incredibly invasive technological capabilities, we...
We opposed legislation which would expand the crime of stalking to include the act of following someone and using an electronic device to record their movements in a manner that is "seriously annoying." In...
We opposed legislation which would provide that any "person in charge" of student organizations who permits hazing activities or "negligently fails to take reasonable measures" to prevent hazing could face...
We opposed legislation which would make it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in prison, for a person between the ages of 18 and 21 to engage in electronic casino gaming, or iGaming. Presently,...