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RI Convention Center management company must turn over payroll records


PROVIDENCE Attorney General Peter Neronha has opened the door to the release of long-withheld information about the $16.9 million-plus in taxpayer dollars spent in 2019 on staffing events at the Rhode Island Convention Center, the Dunkin Donuts Center and affiliated properties.
The ruling came Wednesday in response to a complaint filed by The Journal against the heavily taxpayer-subsidized Rhode Island Convention Center Authority a year ago, before COVID-19 turned the venues into a makeshift hospital and then a vaccination site.
We find that the authority itself did not violate the APRA . by not producing records it does not maintain, Special Assistant Attorney General Kayla O Rourke wrote on behalf of the office. ....

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