The Complainant alleged the Department violated the APRA when it denied his request for any Department reports formulated as a result of criminal complaints made by a specific, private citizen. The Complainant indicated that no arrest resulted from the alleged criminal complaint(s) he sought. The Department neither confirmed nor denied that it possessed records responsive to the Complainant's request and maintained that, if responsive records did exist, such documents would be exempt from disclosure pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 38-2-2(4)(D)(c). This Office requested to view any responsive records in camera. This Office then found that disclosure of the requested records, assuming they exist, implicates a privacy interest and that we were not presented with evidence of a public interest that would outweigh the privacy interest implicated. Accordingly, we found no violation.
