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Delaware Department of Justice
Attorney General
Kathy Jennings




 Archived Posts From:  January 2023

23-IB04 01/25/2023 FOIA Opinion Letter to Thomas Pledgie re: FOIA Complaint Concerning the Delaware Department of Finance

Petitioner alleged that the Delaware Department of Finance improperly denied his request for certain meeting minutes because he was not a citizen of Delaware.

DECIDED: The Department did not violate FOIA by denying access to the requested records.

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23-IB03 01/24/2023 FOIA Opinion Letter to Amy Roe re: FOIA Complaint Concerning the Delaware Department of Education

Petitioner alleged that the Delaware Department of Education (“DOE”) violated FOIA by including in its cost estimate for email retrieval time to scrub email results and including in its potential administrative cost the time to redact documents.

DECIDED: This Office found no basis to conclude that DOE violated FOIA as alleged in the petition.

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23-IB02 01/19/2023 Opinion Letter to Donald Burdick re: FOIA Complaint Concerning Sussex County

Petitioner alleged that Sussex County violated FOIA by failing to provide responsive records to two requests related to a certain wastewater facility.

DECIDED: The County has met its burden of proof to demonstrate that it has not violated FOIA by failing to provide responsive records to the two requests.

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23-IB01 01/09/2023 FOIA Opinion Letter to Mike Lang re: FOIA Complaint Concerning the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Directors

Petitioner alleged that the Board of Directors of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (“DIAA”) violated FOIA at its November 10, 2022 meeting because the motion to take administrative action on a personnel matter discussed in the preceding executive session did not adequately describe the topic subject to vote.

DECIDED: The Board did not violate FOIA by failing to describe more specifically the personnel matter subject to vote.

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