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.
After a long and arduous process, beginning even before the bill’s introduction, a compromise bill addressing procedures for HIV testing of pregnant women was passed into law.
ACLU lobbying helped bottle up in committee a State Police proposal to give law enforcement officials broad authority to secretly obtain, without a warrant or even a showing of “probable cause,” subscriber...
The House took no action this year on a Senate-approved measure to restrict the state and municipalities from using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology on students, employees or clients.
For the second year in a row, the Governor has vetoed an important privacy bill that would restrict the state and municipalities from making use of “radio frequency identification” technology to track...