PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 21 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following statement by Executive Director Steven Brown on Gov. Gina Raimondo's announcement and release of the Crush Covid RI contact tracing app: "As the Governor has acknowledged and most people recognize, potentially substantial privacy issues are raised by the government's use of any technological location tracking program. That is certainly true in this case with the state's efforts to control  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 29 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: ACLU of Rhode Island cooperating attorney Amato DeLuca filed suit in federal court seeking monetary damages on behalf of a former Narragansett High School student with special education needs who was thrown to the ground, choked and falsely arrested by a school resource officer (SRO) over a rude hand gesture the student gave the SRO. A videotaped record of the incident, whic  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 28 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: ACLU of Rhode Island cooperating attorneys Ellen Saideman and Lynette Labinger filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the state Department of Labor and Training's (DLT) actions in summarily freezing weekly unemployment insurance benefit payments to hundreds of Rhode Islanders without any notice or explanation. The suit was filed three weeks after reports first emerged of   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 29 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: Calling Governor Gina Raimondo's two-and-a-half-month old executive order giving public bodies extra time to respond to open records requests "unwarranted and extremely damaging to the public interest," seven media and open government organizations called on her to immediately rescind the order. The Access to Public Records Act gives public bodies ten business days to respo  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 22 -- The Association of Zoos and Aquariums issued the following news release: The United States has a wildlife trafficking crisis closer to home than most people realize: native turtles are disappearing from lands and waters and ending up in the hands of poachers across the country. For those who are witnessing this crisis first hand - conservation professionals, biologists, and wildlife law enforcement officials - there is a consensus that immediate action is ne  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 25 -- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features applied mathematics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2020 edition: * Characterization of hereditary algebras via thick subcategories * Composition-differentiation operators on the Hardy space * Cubic forms having matrix factorizations by Hessian matrices * Estimate of the Hopf degree of fractional Sobolev mappings * Morp  more