Public Record (APRA Request) Process

The Office of Energy Resources (“OER”) is committed to transparency and open government. If you would like to ask OER an energy question, you can access our Constituent Request form on our website (Constituent Request). Many records are available online through the OER’s website or other State websites.

• State employee payroll information can be found on the RI State Employee Payroll Search portal.
• Use the RI Transparency Portal Expenditures Search to browse payments by fiscal year, agency, payee, and program.
• Contracts that exceed $1 million in value and were competitively bid can be found here.

If the information you seek is related to the Office of Energy Resources’ operation but is not readily available through OER’s website or the websites above, you may make an Access to Public Records Act (APRA) request. Pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 38-2-1 et seq., APRA requires public agencies to provide access to public records. A formal public records request must be communicated in writing and be reasonably identifiable as a public records request. Request submissions must be submitted in writing through the form below or to the Public Records Officer identified below.  Request submissions should be submitted in writing through the form below. While OER does not limit the method of submitting a written and reasonably identifiable APRA request that is addressed to the Public Records Officer, a formal public records request that is submitted electronically must be submitted either through the form below or by email to David.Augustyn@Energy.ri.gov. Subject to R.I. Gen. Laws § 38-2-3(d), submission of any request to any other email may affect whether the communication is "otherwise readily identifiable as a request for public records" and, as such, the effective date of OER's receipt of a readily identifiable public records request.      

Alternatively, OER welcomes members of the public to discuss the availability of specific resources with the Public Records Officer indicated below or with any relevant staff member before or instead of participating in a formal APRA request. (Contact Us) This alternative process will likely be provided at no cost and provide the opportunity to engage personally with our staff members. 

If you would like to submit an APRA request, OER asks that you fill out and submit the form below:

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If you have any questions about the process of accessing public records maintained by the Office of Energy Resources, please contact the Office’s Public Records Officer at:

David M. Augustyn, Esq.
Public Records Officer
Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources
1 Capitol Hill
Providence, RI 02908
Phone: 401-871-8604
Email: David.Augustyn@Energy.ri.gov

Record requests need not be in writing if the requested records are available pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act or are otherwise readily available to the public. Any decision made by the above Public Records Officer may be appealed pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 38-2-8(a), which provides that “[a]ny person or entity denied the right to inspect the record of a public body may petition the chief administrative officer of that public body for a review of the determinations made by his or her subordinate.” Any appeal may be submitted to this Office in the same manner as APRA requests may be submitted to this Office pursuant to this Office’s APRA procedures and should be directed to the Office of Energy Resources.