Open records law needs an update

In 1979, Rhode Island became the 49th state to enact an open-records law guaranteeing the right to view state and municipal agency records, including arrest reports filed by police. The state’s hostility toward transparency apparently remains. Recently, the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union released a report documenting five separate incidents in

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