Rhode Island General Laws 28-32-5. Disclosure and use of contents of reports
(a) No report, or part of a copy of a report, shall be open to the public, nor shall any of its contents be disclosed in any manner, nor be permitted to become known, by any officer or employee of the state or other person having access to it, but the reports shall be used for state investigation, including investigations by the workers’ compensation fraud unit pursuant to § 42-16.1-12, and statistics only, and those statistics shall in no way disclose the identity of the employer making the report.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 28-32-5
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Employee: means any person who has entered into the employment of or works under contract of service or apprenticeship with any employer, except that in the case of a city or town other than the city of Providence it shall only mean that class or those classes of employees as may be designated by a city, town, or regional school district in a manner provided in this chapter to receive compensation under chapters 29 — 38 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-29-2
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
(b) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense, and if the offender is an officer or employee of the state, he or she shall be dismissed from the office and shall be subsequently ineligible to hold an office under the state for a period of one year.
History of Section.
P.L. 1912, ch. 831, art. 6, § 5; P.L. 1915, ch. 1268, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 92, art. 6, § 5; G.L. 1938, ch. 300, art. 6, § 5; P.L. 1954, ch. 3297, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-32-5; P.L. 2000, ch. 491, § 3.