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RI Delegation Welcomes a First-Night Speaker
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin and Gov. Linc Chafee (Photo by John McDaid) CHARLOTTE, NC -- The Rhode Island delegation was buzzing this morning over last night’s speeches and events at...
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New Open Records Law Needs Enforcement
Mike Field, of the Attorney General’s office, testifies at a hearing on a proposal to update Rhode Island’s Access to Public Records Act in 2012. (Photo by Bob Plain) Between 1999 and June 2012, the...
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Will RI move forward with recreational pot, or backwards with medical pot
Beth Comery is a former Providence police officer who has become an advocate for taxing and regulating marijuana in her retirement. There are two bills pertaining to pot being heard at the State House...
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Mandatory minimum for DUI homicides wrong way to enforce law
Atty. Gen. Kilmartn’s recent proposal that vehicular homicide should bring a minimum 30-year sentence strikes me as a bad idea. People who kill with their cars while intoxicated deserve severe...
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Bill would limit police searches of pedestrians, minors
The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on the Comprehensive Community Police Relations Act, (CCPRA) H5819, a bill that seeks to combat racial profiling by requiring “all police departments to...
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Kilmartin asks 10 retail chain stores if they use on-call scheduling
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin sent letters to 10 retail chain companies that do business in Rhode Island to warn them against and request information about what is known as on call scheduling....
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Kilmartin and 16 other AGs rebuke Trump’s immigration executive order
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin is one of 17 from across the country to already officially rebuke President Donald Trump for his executive order concerning immigrants and refugees from Middle Eastern...
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RI joins lawsuit against Trump’s travel ban immigration EO
Rhode Island joined with 15 other states to support a lawsuit brought by Washington and Minnesota that is challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration. “Although the amici...
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ACCESS RI wants to move APRA enforcement from Attorney General’s office
Given the news conference announced a lawsuit against the Pawtucket Police alleging it failed to comply with Rhode Island’s public records law, the topic naturally turned to Attorney General Peter...
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RI Democrats stand with Dreamers, oppose ending DACA
Top elected officials in Rhode Island spoke out against President Trump’s plan to cancel DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that grants amnesty to 800,000 children of undocumented...
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