Complainant filed three (3) APRA complaints against the Rhode Island Department of Education ("RIDE") regarding various documents pertaining to the West Bay Collaborative ("WBC"). As such, we consolidated all three complaints into a single finding. Although all three complaints raised several allegations, based on the evidence presented, we concluded RIDE violated the APRA on two occasions. First, we concluded that RIDE violated the APRA when it failed to provide Complainant with the redacted source documents responsive to Complainant's request. Second, we found that RIDE violated the APRA when it "granted" Complainant's request for responsive documents that did not exist.
