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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Gaston County government announced it plans to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against
The Gazette, and that the county s attorney said he has been tasked with finding an alternative paper of record for the required legal notice advertising the county does with the newspaper.
County leaders threatened to shift $70,000-$100,000 annually away from
The Gazette, a move that some experts said might be unconstitutional.
Michael Grygiel, an attorney representing the newspaper, called the plede to dismiss the lawsuit a win for freedom of the press. We are pleased the county apparently recognized the First Amendment imposes a zero-tolerance limit for defamation lawsuits brought by governmental bodies based on news reports critical of their official actions, Grygiel said Friday.