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PERA calls for an independent review of police-moped impact
"While the facts of the collision on Elmwood Avenue remain under investigation, one thing is clear: PERA must be a part of this investigation from the beginning." The Providence External Review Authority (PERA) is calling for an independ...
HousingWorks RI: Housing affordability continues to elude many Rhode Islanders
“Rhode Island must act now and incorporate a line item in the state’s budget to prioritize housing for its residents. The data continuously shows the negative impacts housing instability and homelessness can have on development and overa...
95 blocked as part of Indigenous People's Day protest
"A Genocide Happened Here, Rhode Island is Guilty," read the protester's banner. Several people were arrested in Providence on Monday night after blocking Route 95 near the Providence Place Mall. Protesters parked a U-Haul truck and a ca...
RI ACLU sends letter to state officials defending the right "to peacefully record the activities of police in public"
"It is deeply disturbing to see Rhode Island police joining counterparts elsewhere in... attempting to intimidate and stymie reporters from doing their job. The role of the press in situations like these is critical to a functioning demo...
PERA investigator issues report on PVD Police Sergeant Hanley's use of force
Sergeant Hanley is observed in the following acts after the complainant is in handcuffs and lying on the ground in the prone position... Eugene Monteiro, the investigator for the Providence External Review Authority (PERA) issued a repor...
Black Lives Matter RI demands the removal of DHS official in Pawtucket
Black Lives Matter RI protested outside the Department of Human Services (DHS) offices in Pawtucket Thursday morning to demand the firing of Special Project Supervisor Laura Larivee and DHS Director Courtney Hawkins. Larivee has been the...
One Neighborhood Builders launches community WiFi network in Olneyville
"The internet is a public utility - No one questions whether you should have access to clean water and heat and so forth, right? For so long we just considered the internet to be a luxury, a convenience. But it really has absolutely tran...
Protest theater outside PVD City Hall demands an end to prison torture and isolation
“Our community members behind bars are extremely vulnerable because we can't see what's happening to them. The state thinks that this is a license to abuse them and that if we can't see what's happening we don't remember or care… our lov...
Tech and procedural problems plague PVD City Council hearing on multi-hub resolution
"The Governor has made it clear she wants busses out of the plaza. RIDOT is moving as swiftly as possible to achieve this and the agency isn't following the more inclusive process of engaging stakeholders, including riders, to come up wi...
Third meeting of the LEOBoR task force talks officers and chiefs, but what about civilians?
"There seems to be a conflict between civilian [constitutional] rights … and what LEOBoR does, and to the extent that there is a conflict, it shouldn't be the state law [LEOBoR] that's ruling the day - our focus and our emphasis should b...