The Complainant alleged the Town of Cumberland ("Town") violated the APRA when it improperly redacted and denied his APRA request seeking records concerning the death of a third party. In In re: Cumberland Police Department, ADV PR 03-02, this Department concluded that "when a law enforcement agency investigates a complaint and determines that an arrest is not warranted, there exists a strong presumption that records arising out of that investigation fail to meet the threshold requirement established by R.I. Gen. Laws § 38-2-2(4)(i)(D)(c)." Whatever public interest exists in disclosure – and based on these facts and our review of the documents we doubt it is much – the privacy interest outweighs the public interest. We found no violation.
