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Artists and theater groups have today filed a lawsuit challenging a new certification requirement for National Endowment for the Arts’ grants that requires applicants to attest that they will not “promote gender ideology” in order to be eligible for funding

The ACLU of Rhode Island today released a report examining the practices of city and town councils and school committees in providing the public remote access to their meetings, and said there was a need for improvement in their practices. The report, an update to one the ACLU issued almost two year

A lawsuit filed today by attorneys for the RWU Prisoners’ Rights Clinic and the ACLU of RI challenges the R.I. Department of Corrections’ restrictive policies governing the religious freedom of Muslims incarcerated at the ACI, including significant constraints on their ability to observe Ramadan

the ACLU of RI sent a letter to Glocester school district Superintendent Renee Palazzo, urging her to rescind directives she issued to the Fogarty Memorial School’s librarians to allow students to check out only “age appropriate” books.

In a letter sent today to Brown University President Christina Paxson and other members of the University administration, the ACLU of Rhode Island and its student chapter condemned the school’s three-month-long “interim” suspension of the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

The ACLU of Rhode Island today urged municipal officials to adopt a comprehensive ordinance designed to protect their immigrant communities from constitutionally dubious federal actions and pronouncements.

Governor McKee’s decision to prohibit the public’s access to the State House rotunda and to prevent news cameras from recording the State of the State address raise serious free speech concerns.

In a victory for government transparency and accountability, as well as protection of the sanctity of the attorney-client privilege, the RI Department of Corrections (RIDOC) has acknowledged its obligations to follow the public rule-making provisions of the state’s Administrative Procedures Act

Last month, in response to years of glaring failures in Rhode Island’s behavioral health system for children and youth, Disability Rights Rhode Island, the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, and Children’s Rights filed a class action lawsuit against the State