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![handle is hein.sag/sagri0020 and id is 1 raw text is: Unofficial Finding PR 00-01
January 5, 2000
Senator Catherine E. Graziano
42 Rowley Street
Providence, RI 02909
Re: Graziano v. Department of Administration
Our File No.: PR 99-0428
Dear Senator Graziano:
The investigation into your Access to Public Records Act (APRA) complaint
filed against the Department of Administration (DOA) is complete. You contend that
DOA has violated the APRA by failig to provide you with requested documents.
Specifically, you rcquested:
[a]ny and all public information regarding [employees
who work in the Rhode Island State House and for the
Senate and House Leadership,] including[,] but not limited
to[,1 the date of hire, the category/classification into which
hired (job description), the starting salaries for each
employee, the current job classification (if changed from
the original,) and the current salary as listed for fiscal year
1999-2000.
In response to your complaint, we received a substantive response from legal
counsel, Peter N. Dennehy, Esq. Mr. Dennehy relates that in response to your original
letter requesting the above information, DOA forwarded a letter containing the name of
each employee and his or her class title, date of hire, and current salary. Therefore,
according to Mr. Dennehy, [tihe only information ... which was not submitted was the
job classification into which these legislative employees were originally hired and their
starting salary. According to Mr. Dennehy, this information was not provided because
[i]ndividual code translations would be required . . . to accurately identify and translate
in understandable terms all appointment/promotions. Mr. Dennehy relates that this
task would require the reorganizationl,l consolidationtJ and compilation of data from at
least two sources[,] a task that Mr. Dennehy contends a public body is not required to
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