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Protecting civil liberties is NOT a piece of cake. Just ask anyone who worked on the Reproductive Privacy Act. But we're going to eat cake anyways.

Stating that "[g]overnment transparency and support of the public’s right to know are more, not less, critical during emergency situations," the ACLU of RI and Common Cause RI have urged Governor Gina Raimondo to revise an executive order she issued this week that suspends certain provisions of the state's open meetings and public records laws. In  a detailed letter sent to the Governor, the two organizations recognized a need to relax some provisions of those laws, but said that the Order did not sufficiently protect the public's interests in government transparency.