The Complainant alleged that the School Department violated the APRA by not responding to his APRA request. The undisputed evidence revealed that the School Department did timely respond to his APRA request but that the email response went to the Complainant's spam email folder. We thus found no...
The Complainant alleged that the Commission violated the APRA when it provided a letter without attachments. We found that the Commission did not violate the APRA because the request did not specify that it sought attachments and the undisputed evidence established that the Commission provided a...
The Complainant alleged that the School Committee violated the OMA when a quorum of its members engaged in a collective discussion over social media, specifically Facebook, outside of a properly noticed public meeting. Based on the totality of the evidence, we concluded that the evidence did not...
The Complainant alleged the Department violated the APRA when it denied his request for unredacted legal bills and invoices from a law firm engaged to represent the Department. Based upon the evidence presented, the Department provided the requested invoices to the Complainant with limited...
The Complainant alleged that the Police Department violated the APRA when it withheld an incident report. We reviewed the withheld document in camera and determined that it related to a domestic incident involving a minor where no arrest was made. Because the report contains sensitive...
This Office previously concluded that RIDOT violated the APRA when it failed to timely produce or exempt all documents responsive to Complainant's request. This Office issued a finding requiring RIDOT to provide any responsive documents it maintains at no cost, describe its search efforts, and...
The Complainant alleged the City violated the APRA when it withheld documents responsive to his APRA request for records related to certain real property. This Office concluded that the City violated the APRA when its initial response to Complainant's request did not provide any specific reasons...
The Complainant alleged that the City violated the APRA when it failed to respond to his request. The City acknowledged the error, noting that a City employee mistakenly deleted the email from a "John Doe" thinking it was spam. However, the City made the undisputed assertion that once it became...
The Complainant alleged the Board violated the OMA when several items on the agenda for its January 13, 2020 meeting failed to specify the nature of the business to be discussed. This Office determined that the pertinent agenda items did not adequately inform the public of the business to be...
The Complainant alleged that the Town Council violated the OMA when it convened into executive session without listing the executive session on the agenda. The undisputed evidence indicated that the Town Council listed the executive session items on its agenda. We found no violation.
