Rhode Island legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 199,461+ Rhode Island laws, regulations, court decisions and regulatory materials from Rhode Island government, judicial and regulatory institutions across 4 official portals. Search Rhode Island legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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Which Rhode Island statute governs data breach notification?
The Identity Theft Protection Act of 2015 — codified at R.I. Gen. Laws Title 11, Chapter 49.3, with the breach-notification duty set out in § 11-49.3-4 (Notification of breach).
Source: Rhode Island Judiciary — webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE11/11-49.3/11-49.3-4.htm
Retrieved: 2026-07-01 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Rhode Island sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Rhode Island legal materials from official government, legislative, court, and regulator sources. Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: the General Assembly and its statutes and bills · the state judiciary and case law · the Rhode Island Code of Regulations (administrative law) · case-law index and secondary sources
- State of Rhode Island General Assembly (rilegislature.gov)
- USA Rhode Island Judiciary (courts.ri.gov)
- Rhode Island Code of Regulations (rules.sos.ri.gov)
- Court Listener — Rhode Island (courtlistener.com)
Rhode Island legal source types covered
Rhode Island legal coverage includes primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
The Rhode Island General Laws, session Public Laws, and the Rhode Island Code of Regulations (RICR), taken directly from the General Assembly (rilegislature.gov) and the Secretary of State's rules portal (rules.sos.ri.gov).
Legislative History
Bills, committee documents, and submitted testimony from the Rhode Island General Assembly where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Administrative rules and agency regulations published in the Rhode Island Code of Regulations, filed with and issued through the Rhode Island Secretary of State (rules.sos.ri.gov).
Case Law
Court decisions from official Rhode Island sources, including the Supreme Court of Rhode Island and the Superior Court via the Rhode Island Judiciary (courts.ri.gov) and the CourtListener index, where available.
One Rhode Island legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Rhode Island laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=US_RI&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Rhode Island legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Rhode Island materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Rhode Island legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Rhode Island legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with Rhode Island legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Rhode Island legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Rhode Island law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Rhode Island sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Rhode Island legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Rhode Island legal research
Rhode Island legal information is spread across the General Assembly's statutes and bills, the Secretary of State's code of regulations, the state courts, and case-law index sources. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Rhode Island legal coverage
Rhode Island is a U.S. common-law state. Its statutes are codified in the Rhode Island General Laws, with each annual session's enactments issued as Public Laws by the Rhode Island General Assembly (the Senate and the House of Representatives) and published on rilegislature.gov. Administrative rules are compiled in the Rhode Island Code of Regulations (RICR), filed with and published through the Secretary of State on rules.sos.ri.gov. Case law comes from the state judiciary — the Supreme Court of Rhode Island and the Superior Court — published via the Rhode Island Judiciary (courts.ri.gov), with additional coverage through the CourtListener index. All materials are published in English.
Rhode Island law changes every legislative session: new Public Laws amend the General Laws, agencies revise the RICR, and fast-moving areas such as data protection keep evolving — from the Identity Theft Protection Act of 2015 through the more recent comprehensive consumer-privacy legislation. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Rhode Island legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Rhode Island legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Rhode Island regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Rhode Island legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Rhode Island legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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