Legislation

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.

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Mar 7, 2004

Legislation, the ACLU, and Privacy: An In-Depth Look

In order to give members a better sense of the scope of the Affiliate’s work, we have picked one topic – privacy – and briefly summarized how the ACLU helped shape lesser pieces of legislation on the issue...

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Mar 7, 2004

Internet Subpoenas

Position: Oppose

For the third year in a row, Affiliate lobbying helped defeat a bill, based in part on a USA Patriot Act provision, to give local law enforcement authorities broad authority to obtain from Internet service...

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