Legislation

We testified in favor of two bills which would have explicitly decriminalized sex work and ensured that sex workers would be able to approach their work without inappropriate stigmatization.

We testified in support of a bill which would have granted legal immunity to individuals engaged in commercial sexual activity who report a crime that they are either a victim of or witness to.

Critical proposed changes to the state’s Fair Employment Practices Act were introduced in two separate pieces of legislation.

We opposed legislation which would have created a "school security committee" charged with facilitating the presence of “armed security personnel” in every school and promoting techniques for student surveillance.

We opposed legislation which would have required that all campus police officers at a public institution of higher education in RI be armed.

We supported legislation which would have required public bodies to establish a plan for providing translation services at public meetings.

We opposed legislation which would have authorized a civil action against parents who demonstrate “willful or wanton disregard” in their exercise of “supervision and control” over a child who has committed the offense of cyberstalking or cyberharassment.

We urged amendments to legislation which would allows allowing hotels to eject patrons who use “verbally abusive language.”

As a piece of explicit voter suppression legislation, we opposed this bill which sought to criminalize “ballot harvesters,” but was so broadly worded that it could have subjected every single voter in Rhode Island to potential prison time if passed.