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Katlyn Patton-Attorney FIRE Foundation For Individual Rights In Education Tackles Campus Free Speech

Katlyn Patton-Attorney FIRE Foundation For Individual Rights In Education Tackles Campus Free Speech

  Support The Coalition Radio Network? Consider A Purchase From Any Of Our Vendors From https://www.thefire.org/ “Freedom of speech is a fundamental American freedom and a human right, and there’s no place that this right should be more valued and protected than America’s colleges and universities. A university exists to educate students and advance the frontiers of human knowledge, and[Read More…]

by — April 22, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Court Consent Judgement Strikes From The Books Cranston Anti-Panhandling Ordinance / Cranston Mayor Statement!

Court Consent Judgement Strikes From The Books Cranston Anti-Panhandling Ordinance / Cranston Mayor Statement!

  In a major victory for the First Amendment and the rights of the poor that ends a four-year battle between the ACLU of RI and the City of Cranston, U.S. District Court Chief Judge William Smith today signed an order declaring the City’s anti-panhandling ordinance unconstitutional and barring the City from enforcing it or enacting any similar ordinance. The six-page[Read More…]

by — April 20, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
ACLU FAVORABLY SETTLES LAWSUIT AGAINST PORTSMOUTH OVER POLITICAL SIGN BAN

ACLU FAVORABLY SETTLES LAWSUIT AGAINST PORTSMOUTH OVER POLITICAL SIGN BAN

    A federal judge has approved the settlement of a lawsuit filed in January by ACLU of Rhode Island cooperating attorney Richard A. Sinapi that challenged the constitutionality of a Portsmouth town ordinance banning the posting of political signs on residential property. The favorable settlement, which permanently bars enforcement of the ordinance, was on behalf of town resident Michael[Read More…]

by — April 20, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Attorney General issues APRA finding in Lyssikatos v. Narragansett Police Department

Attorney General issues APRA finding in Lyssikatos v. Narragansett Police Department

    Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that his office has issued a finding in response to an Access to Public Records Act (APRA) complaint filed against the Narragansett Police Department by Dimitri Lyssikatos. As detailed in the finding, the Office of the Attorney General found that 14 internal affairs reports should be disclosed as public records, subject to[Read More…]

by — April 16, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
RI Sen Sam Bell Calls For Corrections Chief To Resign: "Gina Raimondo Has Blood On Her Hands"

RI Sen Sam Bell Calls For Corrections Chief To Resign: “Gina Raimondo Has Blood On Her Hands”

Breaking! Attending a demonstration held by the Decarcerate NOW Coalition, protesting living conditions and civil rights violations at Rhode Island prisons, influential State Senator Sam Bell called for, among other demands, the immediate resignation of Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, Esq. “There is blood on the hands of Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, there is blood on the hands of Gina Raimondo … And[Read More…]

by — April 10, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
FLASH! SATURDAY 2PM MARCH/RALLY-ROGER WILLIAMS PARK FAMILY MEMBERS OF INCARCERATED PEOPLE DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY AROUND ABUSE BY CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS IN RI PRISONS

FLASH! SATURDAY 2PM MARCH/RALLY-ROGER WILLIAMS PARK FAMILY MEMBERS OF INCARCERATED PEOPLE DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY AROUND ABUSE BY CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS IN RI PRISONS

  What: A speaker program of family members and formerly incarcerated people regarding recent and longstanding abuses by the Brotherhood of Correctional Officers, followed by a march through Roger Williams Park When: 2 PM on Saturday, April 10, 2021 Where: Roger Williams Park, starting from the Temple of Music Family members of incarcerated people and formerly incarcerated community organizers from[Read More…]

by — April 9, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Pawtucket Based Community United 4 Positive Change Issues List Of Demands

Pawtucket Based Community United 4 Positive Change Issues List Of Demands

Communities United for Positive Change (CU4PC) is a group of Pawtucket residents and community leaders who came together in Spring 2020, after the George Floyd murder, in an effort to address city-wide concerns about accountability, transparency, racism and abuse of power within the Pawtucket Police Department. Joao Goncalves, Chairman of the Board of Cape Verdean American Community Development, which is[Read More…]

by — April 9, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
RIACLU: BAIL HEARINGS FOR ICE DETAINEES TO RESUME TOMORROW

RIACLU: BAIL HEARINGS FOR ICE DETAINEES TO RESUME TOMORROW

BAIL HEARINGS FOR ICE DETAINEES TO RESUME TOMORROW  WHAT: Bail hearings for ICE detainees held at the Wyatt Detention Center will resume tomorrow before District Judge Mary McElroy. There are currently 33 ICE detainees being held there, and 4 hearings are scheduled for tomorrow.  The hearings are the result of a class action lawsuit, filed in May 2020, seeking urgent[Read More…]

by — April 5, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties, Uncategorized
Boston Area Assange Defense Committee Sponsors Copley Square Rally On Anniversary Of Collateral Murder Wikileaks Video Release

Boston Area Assange Defense Committee Sponsors Copley Square Rally On Anniversary Of Collateral Murder Wikileaks Video Release

Supporters of Julian Assange will rally at Copley Square, Boston,  on Monday, April 5 from 11:00 to 12:30. The rally will take place on the side of the Boston Pubic Library along Dartmouth Street. The Assange Defense Committee is calling for all charges against Assange to be dropped, and immediately released from prison.  The founder of WikiLeaks has been in[Read More…]

by — April 4, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Rhode Island Legal Services & ACLU File Court Brief Blasting State Education Policy Undermining Rights of English Language Learners

Rhode Island Legal Services & ACLU File Court Brief Blasting State Education Policy Undermining Rights of English Language Learners

Rhode Island Legal Services and the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island have filed a detailed brief in R.I. Superior Court seeking to overturn a decision issued last year by the Council of Elementary and Secondary Education (“Council”) that the groups claim violate “the rights of English Learners throughout the state, at the very time that recent studies and reports[Read More…]

by — March 30, 2021 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
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