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.
When virtual education became ubiquitous at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, issues of student privacy on school-loaned devices rightly crept to the forefront of public conversation. ...
This provision in the Governor's proposed budget would expand the scope, reach, and use of the Rhode Island Longitudinal Data System, allowing for greater sharing of vast amounts of data among state...
Under this legislation, licensed cannabis sellers would be required to post signs warning that the consumption of marijuana during pregnancy poses a risk to infant development. This bill unintentionally...
Although it may appear counterintuitive, one of the most effective ways to address substance use disorder is through the establishment of clinics in which an individual can self-administer previously...
Though we are very sympathetic to the interest in protecting employees in light of the nationwide upswell of threats made to various personnel, we opposed legislation that would make it a felony with a...
As juvenile and inadvisable as it is to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create sexually explicit, but fake, digital images, criminalizing the dissemination of such digitally generated content...