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), (
The Complainant alleged that the Town Council engaged in a discussion outside the public purview related to how the five Town Council members would vote regarding the 2021 town budget. Based on the undisputed evidence, including the affidavits of the five Town Council members, we did not find...
The Complainant alleged that the City violated the APRA by (1) withholding certain dispatch records pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 38-2-2(4)(D), "to prevent the disclosure of information which (a) could reasonably be expected to interfere with investigations of criminal activity or with enforcement...
Complainant alleges that the Authority violated the OMA when it failed to timely post minutes of its meetings on the Secretary of State's website since March 28, 2019. The Authority conceded that its minutes for meetings occurring after March 28, 2019 were not timely posted on the Secretary of...
The Complainant alleged the Department violated the APRA when it stated that it did not have a document responsive to Complainant's request for certain information related to a proposed budget. The Department provided a link to the Department's Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Proposed Budget for the...
The Complainant alleged the Town Council violated the OMA when an agenda item for its November 18, 2019 meeting failed to specify the nature of the business to be discussed with regard to the renewal of a certain business's liquor license. This Office determined that the subject agenda item did...
The Complainant proffered several allegations that that the Town violated the APRA in connection with two (2) APRA requests he submitted. Based on the totality of the evidence before us, we found that the Town violated the APRA with respect to one of Complainant's allegations, namely, that the...
