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...
The Portsmouth Town Council violated the OMA when its agenda item for its October 29, 2013 meeting failed to inform the public of the nature of the business to be discussed. See R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-46-6(b). The agenda item in question stated "Request Additional Funding for the Mothballing of the...
Mr. McQuade submitted an APRA request to the Rhode Island Department of Public Safety ("DPS") requesting documents, broken down into nineteen (19) different categories, relating to the Rhode Island State Fusion Center and related programs and activities of the Rhode Island State Police and its...
Because the City of Providence has concluded that the Limited Partnership agreement should be disclosed, at least in part, this department opined that nothing within the Access to Public Records Act prohibits the City from disclosing the Limited Partnership agreement in accordance with its...
The Complainants alleged the Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission ("RIAEC) violated the Open Meetings Act ("OMA") on numerous occasions. After review of all allegations, this Department found the RIAEC violated the OMA when it 1) held its December 10, 2012 meeting on less than 48 hours notice...
The Complainant alleged the Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission ("RIAEC) violated the Open Meetings Act ("OMA") on several occasions. After review of all allegations, this Department found the RIAEC violated the OMA when it failed to properly conduct and record an open call for the following...
The Coventry Fire District ("Fire District") did not violate the OMA when it refused to allow Complainant to attend an executive meeting on January 30, 2014. Based upon the evidence presented, the portion of the meeting when the Fire District convened into a larger training room with the union...
