Legislation

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 calling records and financial information from telephone and Internet service providers.

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 third year in a row, the City of Providence was unsuccessful in its efforts to expand the penalties for prostitution.

This bill originally contained a number of concerning provisions regarding the organ donation process in Rhode Island.

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.