Providence Journal
Posted Mar. 13, 2015 at 2:01 AM
By Kenneth Kramer
It is the annual Sunshine Week, when U.S. newspapers publish stories about public records and the difficulty in obtaining some of them. Public records are generally defined as records, regardless of their physical form (so email would be included), made or received in connection with the transaction of official business by any government agency...
The federal law governing public records is called the The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but each state has its own laws, and there are quirks.
-In Rhode Island, email correspondence of elected officials is not public (See http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/title38/38-2/38-2-2.HTM).
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