PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The attorney general's office has decided that the sister of a man who hanged himself in the Adult Correctional Institutions doesn't have the right to see a Rhode Island State Police narrative relating to the investigation of his death.
The attorney general says that public release of the narrative "could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of [her family's] personal privacy rights."
Under the state's Access to Public Records Act, wrote Special Assistant Attorney General Lisa Pinsonneault, incident reports that do not result in an arrest are not subject to disclosure.
Holly A. Radtke filed the request for the police narrative because she wanted to know more about the circumstances surrounding the death of her 36-year-old brother, Todd D. Radtke, an electrician who hanged himself last summer in the ACI's Intake Service Center while awaiting trial on forgery, larceny and possession of heroin charges. He died a week later, on Aug. 5, in Kent Hospital.