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.
We supported legislation which would remove outdated language that previously limited insurance coverage for fertility treatments to "women between the ages of twenty-five and forty-two years old." Because...
As an organization that enthusiastically supports the role of libraries in a democractic society, as well as the core First Amendment right of intellectual freedom - including the right to read anything...
We supported legislation which would make explicit that employers must provide reasonable accommodations to employees experiencing menopause, just as the law currently requires for various pregnancy-related...
We supported this bill which would prohibit police from employing threats, deception, or psychologically manipulative interrogation tactics during the custodial interrogation of a juvenile. Especially...
The tremendous harm that juveniles can face being placed into what is effectively a prison environment is evident. We supported legislation which would have generally prohibited the detention of a juvenile...
It's no surprise that juveniles are generally less able than adults to understand, and act upon, their legal rights while being questioned, but law enforcement proceeds as if they are well-informed adults...