The Providence Journal, alleged the Police Department violated the APRA when it denied its APRA request, which sought "a copy of the police report from Feb. 11 on the murder-suicide of [Mr. and Mrs. Doe] and Feb. 4 report made by [Ms. Doe] alleging threats by [Mr. Doe]." In National Archives and...
The Complainant sought the "narratives for the last 10 death cases the PPD [Pawtucket Police Department] classified as 'suicide.'" It is beyond debate that the deceased individuals identified in the ten (10) requested reports have no privacy interest as "the right to privacy dies with the person."
Complainant alleged that the WGFD violated the APRA when it failed to produce documents responsive to his request. This Department has long held that "in order for this Department to have jurisdiction to inquire into an APRA matter, the complainant must first have requested a record from a public...
Complainant alleged that the WGFD violated the OMA and the APRA when it: (1) untimely posted its annual notice after its first meeting; (2) untimely posted notice of its annual meeting; (3) failed to include the open call requirements set forth in R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-46-4(a) in its open session...
Based upon the evidence presented, the subject document responsive to Save the Bay's APRA request was generated by the Chief of DEM's Office of Compliance and Inspection, in consultation with DEM attorneys (and on occasion with attorneys from the Department of Attorney General) to evaluate and...
This Department determined that the RISILC and its leadership subcommittee is a public body for purposes of the OMA and this finding, and that the RISILC violated the OMA by failing to post minutes to the Secretary of State's website for the May 20, 2015, June 24, 2015, June 25, 2015, July 8, 2015,
This Department concluded that the DPS did not violate the APRA because its search and retrieval relating to the Complainant's APRA request was reasonably calculated to discover all responsive documents. The APRA request sought arrest records and "any related documents, due to any body attachments,
This supplemental finding addressed whether Complainant's rebuttal altered our finding in Katz v. Employees Retirement System, PR 16-32. The evidence demonstrated that Complainant's APRA request sought data that was not part of the public body's computer program's usual outputs. Calculating a new...
The School Committee violated the OMA when it voted on the issue of appointment of a Superintendent while in executive session pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-46-5(a)(1). The plain language of the OMA and our previous findings have held that when a public body chooses to convene into executive...
The Office of Attorney General today filed a complaint in Rhode Island Superior Court citing the Compass School for a willful and knowing, or reckless, violation of the Rhode Island Access to Public Records Act (APRA) for failure to respond to an APRA request within the time as prescribed by law.
