On March 6, 2013, this Department issued its finding in CCF, LLC v. Department of Transportation, PR 13-04. CCF, LLC wherein this Department concluded that the Department of Transportation ("DOT") did not violate the APRA because there was no evidence presented or discovered to support the...

The Coventry School Committee violated the OMA when it failed to timely provide minutes and a record of all votes taken pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-46-7(b). This Department found injunctive relief to be inappropriate since, based on the evidence presented, the untimely availability of the...

The School Committee did not violate the OMA when it refused to allow the Complainant to attend an executive session. The option to extend an invitation to an individual to attend an executive session is held by the public body, and not the individual seeking to attend the executive session. See...

The Department of Public Safety did not violate the APRA when it did not disclose law enforcement records that identified a particular person, did not lead to criminal charges and where no allegation had been made concerning the propriety of the DPS investigation, because such disclosure "could...

The Woonsocket School Committee did not violate the Open Meetings Act ("OMA") because it created and maintained minutes for its November 13, 2013 executive session consistent with the requirements set forth per R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-46-7(a).

The Tiverton Tax Assessment Board of Review ("Board") did not violate the OMA prior to the start of its January 13, 2014 meeting as there was no evidence that a quorum of the Board collectively discussed public business outside the purview of the public.

The complaint alleged that the Warwick Minimum Housing Review Board violated the OMA when they did not allow the Complainant to videotape the January 6, 2014 meeting. In this Department's finding of Pagliarini v. Kent County Water Authority, OM 06-24, we recognized that the United States District...

On February 10, 2014, the Complainant requested the voice recording of a January 23, 2014 vicious dog hearing. Based upon the evidence presented, the Complainant received this voice recording on February 19, 2014. As such, the Town did not violate the APRA. See R.I. Gen. Laws § 38-2-3(e). The...

The Complainant alleged that the Foster Town Council ("Town Council") violated the OMA when the agenda item for the November 21, 2013 meeting did not specify the nature of the business to be discussed. Since the Complainant attended the November 21, 2013 meeting and did not demonstrate that she...

The Rhode Island Department of Business Regulations ("DBR") violated the APRA when it failed to timely respond to Complainant's APRA request dated July 10, 2013. See R.I. Gen. Laws § 38-2-7. This Department did find, however, that DBR did not waive its right to assert reasons for withholding...