PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 5 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: The ACLU of Rhode Island blasted the City of Providence's continuing implementation of a weeklong State of Emergency and nighttime curfew for city residents and called for its immediate repeal after learning that city licensing officials advised local restaurants and other licensees that they remain free to stay open after 9 PM. In a letter to Mayor Jorge Elorza, ACLU of Rh  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 3 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following statement in response to the adoption of curfew orders by the Cranston, Providence and Warwick: The imposition of blanket curfews within three cities in our state is an extraordinary and overly broad action that, ironically, can only promote the types of discriminatory police actions that have prompted peaceful protests this past week. Each of these curfew orders contain a hodgepodge of   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 2 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: As conflict over race-based discriminatory police practices permeates the country, ACLU of RI cooperating attorneys Shannah Kurland and Lynette Labinger filed suit in federal court over a Pawtucket School Resource Officer's (SRO) gratuitous and unlawful handcuffing and arrest last year of Tre'sur Johnson, a 13-year-old African-American honors student at Goff Middle School. T  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 3 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: In advance of bail hearings beginning at 10 AM before U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy to consider the release of ICE detainees at the Wyatt Detention Center, the judge has released a 15-page decision explaining her decision to order the hearings. The hearings are in response to a class-action lawsuit filed by ACLU attorneys two weeks ago seeking urgent relief for immigratio  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 2 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release: In response to a class-action lawsuit filed by ACLU attorneys two weeks ago seeking urgent relief for immigration detainees at the Wyatt Detention Center facing the increasing spread of Covid-19 at the facility, a federal judge today ordered expedited bail hearings for the detainees. According to the order issued by U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy, individual bail hearings  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 4 -- The American Federation of Teachers issued the following news release: In an historic first for the Ivy League, graduate workers at Brown University have signed a groundbreaking labor contract, winning job security, hundreds of dollars in COVID-19-related healthcare relief and a stipend increase, in the middle of an unprecedented national crisis. The tentative three year agreement, covering more than 1,200 workers, will provide graduate employees with peace   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 5 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release on June 4: The state Department of Labor and Training has agreed to take a series of interim steps to begin rectifying the situation faced by thousands of residents whose unemployment insurance benefit payments were frozen without notice or explanation as part of a fraud investigation. The agreement came at a court hearing late yesterday before U.S. District Judge William Smi  more

PROVIDENCEM, Rhode Island, June 2 -- MassChallenge issued the following announcement: MassChallenge, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, announced the 30 early-stage startups invited to participate in the 2020 MassChallenge Rhode Island program. Selected by a community of more than 100 expert judges, this year's cohort is extremely competitive and represents the top 10% of applications from around the world. "Congratulations to the 30 incredible companies accepted into our 20  more