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Cranston council says it retained outside counsel over OMA complaint, seals executive-session minutes
Summary
At a Sept. 25 special meeting, the Cranston City Council reported that it approved hiring outside litigation counsel to represent the council in an Open Meetings Act complaint and voted to seal the executive-session minutes; the hiring was approved during the executive session, the council said.
The Cranston City Council reported Sept. 25 that it approved hiring outside litigation counsel to represent the council in an open‑meetings complaint and that it voted to seal the executive‑session minutes.
Council members moved into executive session to consider “a letter of engagement for litigation counsel to represent the city council” in the matter identified in the meeting record as “Drake Patton and Rhode Island attorney general versus the Cranston City Council,” an OMA complaint dated Aug. 21, 2025. The council returned to open session and the presiding officer reported that motions made during the executive session were approved.
For the public record, the presiding officer read a motion…
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