The Complainant alleged that CCRI violated the APRA when it withheld a report prepared by outside vendor Financial Aid Services pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 38-2-2(4)(B) and (K). CCRI maintained that its denial was proper because Financial Aid Services was a private vendor hired as a consultant...
The Complainant alleged the Town Council violated the OMA when the agenda for its January 27, 2020 meeting did not fairly inform the public that the Town Council would vote to authorize the submission of a proposal to the Department of Environmental Management. Based on the totality of the...
The Complainant alleged that Rhode Island College ("RIC") violated the APRA when it did not provide all documents responsive to his APRA request. In particular Complainant alleged that RIC had not provided a certain responsive email. The record revealed that after the Complaint was filed, RIC...
The Complainant alleged that the Town Council violated the OMA during its March 12, 2020 executive session meeting by discussing a matter that pertained to the Complainant without providing prior notice to him and without listing it on the agenda. Based on our review, the totality of the evidence...
The Complainant alleged the City violated the APRA when it failed to respond to her APRA request within ten (10) business days. The City did not dispute that it failed to timely respond to the request and indicated that the failure was due to the request going to a "spam" folder. Accordingly, we...
The Complainant alleged that the Subcommittees violated the OMA when they failed to post meeting minutes on the Secretary of State's website for at least two years. Based on the undisputed evidence presented, we determined that the Ordinance Subcommittee is "solely advisory in nature" and...
The Complainant alleged that the RIIFC cited inapplicable reasons to enter executive session regarding two items on its October 24, 2019 agenda. The Complainant did not contest that two of the four purposes listed for entering each executive session applied. As such, we did not find that the RIIFC...
This Office previously concluded that the Town did not violate the APRA in connection with the Complainants' multi-part APRA request. See PR 20-49. We did require the Town to produce or provide a supplemental submission regarding a single withheld email, which the Town subsequently produced to...
The Complainant alleged that the Scituate Housing Authority ("SHA") failed to timely post official and/or approved minutes for its October 1, 2019 meeting on the Secretary of State website. The SHA did not dispute that it failed to post official and/or approved minutes within 35 days of the...
The Complainant alleges the District violated the APRA when it withheld documents related to a "staff investigation." Based on our in camera review, we concluded that the District did not violate the APRA by withholding a number of documents pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 38-2-2(4)(A)(I)(a), (
