Rhode Island official directory

The judiciary home page labels this URL "Public Portal – Where to find a case." The case-information page says the portal shows a register of actions or docket: parties, events, filings, and other activities in chronological order. Courthouse terminals in the Supreme, Superior, Family, District, and Workers' Compensation Courts and the Traffic Tribunal are described as showing public electronic case information, excluding sealed cases and confidential case types in the Public Access Rules (revised September 2023). Remotely, the public, self-represented litigants, and parties are limited to the register of actions or docket and shall not have remote access to other electronic case information. The same URL is the Supreme Court "Case Docket Search." This is one portal. An attorney and agency sign-in on odysseyidentityprovider.tylerhost.net points at the same host and was not opened. Public Access Rules list non-public case types including juvenile, child custody, adoption, termination of parental rights, mental-health certification, paternity, sealed acquittals, expunged cases, and some protection orders when a juvenile is a party. This is not a criminal-history file, not a warrant list, and not e-filing.

• sealed cases and documents
• remote access to documents other than the register of actions or docket for the public
• juvenile and other non-public case types listed in the Public Access Rules
• criminal-history records

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Section 42-56-1 creates the department of corrections for custody of persons committed to state correctional institutions or on probation or parole (history through P.L. 2017, ch. 343 and ch. 349). Section 42-56-10 gives the director power to designate and maintain state correctional facilities. Section 42-56-14 (P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1) declares that the state prison, the men's reformatory, the reformatory for women, and the county jail in the county of Providence, all located in Cranston, and other buildings maintained for those purposes, are the adult correctional institutions. Section 42-56-15 says a reference to the keeper of the Providence County jail, or to a jailer of any jail in any of the several counties, means the director of corrections or the director's designee (P.L. 1991, ch. 183, § 2). Section 12-10-6 says a person who does not give a required recognizance in the District Court shall be immediately committed to the adult correctional institutions. Section 12-13-4 allows bail already set to be taken by the senior prison officer at the adult correctional institution. Section 42-56-22, effective June 20, 2023, includes people committed to the ACI to answer a criminal offense whether convicted or awaiting trial. Title 13, Chapter 2, Adult Correctional Institutions, is repealed in the chapter index. Section 42-56-36 assigns the division of sheriffs statewide transportation of prisoners among police departments, the ACI, and courthouses. The sections read do not assign the sheriffs a jail. These statutes do not say whether a city or town station house is included in the public incarceration search.

• does not list municipal lockups
• does not prove someone is or is not in custody
• Title 13 chapter 2 ACI sections are repealed

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The disclaimer page is the Department of Corrections incarceration search. It says the service is not the official record. The search form URL was blocked by a challenge, so the form fields and any sentence about who is in the database were not seen. Facility pages and statutes, recorded separately, describe the Adult Correctional Institutions. They are not a substitute for the unseen form.

• coverage of county or municipal lockups was not stated
• not a criminal case search

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Section 42-56-14 names the state prison, the men's reformatory, the reformatory for women, and the county jail in Providence County, all located in Cranston, as the adult correctional institutions. Section 42-56-15 says a reference to the keeper of the Providence County jail, or to a jailer of any county jail, means the director of corrections.

• Not an inmate search.
• Does not create a separate Providence County jail locator.

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The published statute requires every city and town except Pawtucket to designate at least one station house for women under arrest. Section 13-5-1 defines a police station as a place where people are temporarily confined under arrest. The history line on section 13-5-2 ends at the 1956 codification. No current list of station houses was found. This is not the Adult Correctional Institutions and it is not a searchable roster.

• not a facility roster
• not proof that each town currently operates a lockup
• not the Adult Correctional Institutions
• Pawtucket exception is not a finding of no lockup

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The only duty description read in this session is in General Laws § 42-56-36, which says the transferred state-marshal functions of the division of sheriffs include statewide transportation of prisoners to and from police departments, the adult correctional institutions, and courthouses. The sheriffs website itself did not load, so it was not used to add or deny a jail roster, courthouse cellblocks, or a public inmate search. Section 42-29-1 places deputy sheriffs under the department of public safety. Section 42-29-32, which was read, is about restraints during transport of a pregnant prisoner to court, not about operating a jail.

• website contents not observed
• not established as a county jail roster
• not a public inmate search

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When the public portal is blocked or a file is not on the remote docket, the records page sends the person to the clerk of the court where the case was filed. The Supreme Court request form (Supreme-19, revised November 2022) says court case files are available for inspection in the respective clerk's office during business hours and cannot be obtained with that form. Published fallback numbers in static HTML: Supreme Court Clerk (401) 222-3272; Workers' Compensation Court Clerk (401) 458-5000; Traffic Tribunal Clerk (401) 275-2700; Judicial Records Center (401) 721-2641. Administrative records requests on the form go to the Office of Community Outreach and Public Relations, 250 Benefit Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, (401) 222-4580, akriss@courts.ri.gov. Hearing calendars say that if a hearing is not listed, contact the clerk of the appropriate court.

• APRA form does not retrieve a court case file
• not a statewide person search

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The judiciary court-rules page links to the Rhode Island General Laws. Title 12, Chapter 13 is Bail and Recognizance. Section 12-13-1 (history through P.L. 1974, ch. 118, § 12) is the right to release pending trial on a recognizance. Section 12-13-1.3 (P.L. 1992, ch. 430, § 1) defines pretrial release as release without bail on conditions and has the department of corrections collect background information. Section 12-13-10 (P.L. 2023, ch. 266 and ch. 267, effective June 22, 2023) allows a deposit of 10 percent of the bail amount instead of a surety, and treats surety or that deposit as the sole monetary conditions except where the defendant owes court-imposed restitution. Superior, District, and Family Court criminal rules, compiled February 2024, contain Rule 46, Release on Bail: a defendant shall be admitted to bail before conviction and may be admitted to bail after conviction pending appeal. The District Court home page says most felonies are arraigned there, where bail is set. The Superior Court flowchart shows felony bail there and a bail reset at Superior Court arraignment. Section 8-2-36 says the Superior Court may admit to bail any person brought before it. Section 12-10-2 (history through P.L. 2016, ch. 395, § 1) lets bail commissioners set and take bail except for offenses punishable by life imprisonment and, if bail is not given, commit the person to the adult correctional institutions. Section 12-13-5 (history through P.L. 1985, ch. 463, § 1) says offenses for which bail may be denied under R.I. Const. Art. I, Sec. IX may be bailed only by a justice of the supreme, superior, or district court. The constitution URL returned HTTP 404, so that list was not copied.

• Workers' Compensation Court and Traffic Tribunal are not described on these pages as the felony bail courts
• constitution text not retrieved (HTTP 404)

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Title 12, Chapter 28 is Victim's Rights. Section 12-28-3 gives a victim who reports the crime and cooperates with law enforcement a right to be notified of the arraignment before a court empowered to set bail and of release on bail or personal recognizance, and a right to status updates from law enforcement at least every three months until apprehension or the investigation is closed. Section 12-28-11 requires the Office of the Attorney General to give reasonable written or oral notice, at least 48 hours ahead, of a bail hearing, pretrial, trial, or disposition to immediate family of a homicide victim who have filed a request with the court that has jurisdiction. The Attorney General promulgates the request forms. No product name for an automated notification vendor was on these sections. No form was opened and no request was filed. The Attorney General website was blocked, so the form's location on that site was not confirmed.

• not a public case search
• not an automated vendor product on the pages read
• homicide-family notice requires a filed request

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The judiciary site presents six parts, not county court websites. The Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction and supervises other state courts. The Superior Court tries civil and criminal cases. Section 8-2-15 gives it original jurisdiction of crimes except as otherwise provided, and the court-structure PDF labels Superior Court criminal as all felonies and civil cases over $5,000. The Family Court handles family and child matters. Section 8-10-4 also refers specified family criminal cases to it, and it has separate juvenile rules. The District Court is one statewide court in four divisions under section 8-8-2 (second, third, fourth, and sixth), sitting at Newport (Murray), Warwick/Kent (Noel), Washington County (McGrath), and the Providence area (Garrahy). Most felonies start there for bail and then go to the Superior Court. The Workers' Compensation Court decides workers' compensation disputes between an injured employee and an employer. The Traffic Tribunal handles most traffic cases and driver accident and violation records. There is no separate county trial-court case search on the pages read. Appeals from a District Court division go to the Superior Court for Newport, Kent, Washington, or Providence County, which is venue inside the statewide Superior Court.

• not six unrelated county case-search systems
• Workers' Compensation Court and the Traffic Tribunal are not the felony bail courts described on the District Court page

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The District Court criminal page says that court handles arraignments for felony and misdemeanor cases, that misdemeanors are punishable by up to one year and fines not to exceed $1,000, and that there are no jury trials in the District Court. It cites § 12-13-10 for refund of any balance of bail after restitution, fines, costs, or other assessments, to the defendant or the person who posted the money. Posting bail at the court requires a license or a Rhode Island identification card. The page says a bail commissioner (justice of the peace) can arraign and release a person when court is not in session, usually at the police department on evenings, weekends, and holidays, and that the person must still attend a formal arraignment in the District Court. It says the commissioner charges a non-refundable fee that is not part of the bail, and it does not print the dollar amount. The statute it cites, § 12-10-2(d), says the fee is fifty dollars, and that a special session between 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. is arranged with the defendant but shall not exceed two hundred dollars. History of § 12-10-2 runs through P.L. 2016, ch. 395, § 1. That fifty dollars is separate from the twenty-five dollar Department of Corrections fee in § 12-13-4 when bail is taken at the adult correctional institutions. In domestic-violence offenses the page says a no-contact order is issued automatically by the judicial officer or the bail commissioner. Dropping it requires a domestic-violence advocate and a judicial officer. Failure to appear after signing a notice to appear leads the judicial officer to order a bench warrant. That is not a public warrant search. The clerk's office does not continue or reschedule court dates.

• not a case search
• not a warrant list
• commissioner fee amount is in the cited statute, not printed as a dollar figure on the court page

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The published statute says surety, or a deposit of 10 percent of the bail amount, is the sole monetary condition of release, except as the section states. It says no court shall require cash as the sole monetary condition except where the defendant owes court-imposed restitution. The history line shows P.L. 2023, ch. 266 and ch. 267, effective June 22, 2023. This does not predict whether a person will be released or what amount will be set.

• Cash can still be required as the sole monetary condition when the defendant owes court-imposed restitution.
• Not a prediction of the bail amount.

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Section 12-13-4 says that when bail is taken at the adult correctional institutions, the person bailed pays a $25 administrative fee to the Department of Corrections. The history line on the fetched page runs through P.L. 1996. This fee is not the bail amount.

• Not the bail amount.
• Applies when bail is taken at the adult correctional institutions.

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Public-defense office or directory. Confirm county, case type and appointment requirements; listing does not guarantee representation.

• Batch 50 research did not grant independent approval or Production publication.
• A readable guide is not a verified search transaction.

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DOJ index of state courts, laws and agencies. Individual linked statutes and legal rules were not substantively reviewed here; check the current primary text before explaining a rule.

• Batch 50 research did not grant independent approval or Production publication.
• A readable guide is not a verified search transaction.
• Official legal-reference entry point only. Not legal advice and not a certification of current law.
• Individual statutes and rules linked from this page were not substantively verified here.

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