25-IB33 6/26/25 FOIA Opinion Letter to ACLU/Jared Silberglied re: Town of Camden
Petitioner alleged that the Town of Camden violated FOIA in responding to its records request by improperly redacting its police department’s communications with a federal agency.
DECIDED: The Town violated FOIA by failing to meet its burden to demonstrate that the redacted communications were appropriately withheld.
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25-IB32 6/17/25 FOIA Opinion Letter to Joseph M. Donahue, Jr. and Keith Redmond re: Town of Blades
Petitioners alleged that the Town of Blades officials held a private meeting with a property developer in violation of FOIA and other legal authority.
DECIDED: The Town violated FOIA by failing to demonstrate that the referenced meeting was held in compliance with FOIA. The non-FOIA claims are outside of this Office’s authority to consider.
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25-IB31 6/04/25 FOIA Opinion Letter to Tom Somers, Jr. re: Delaware Department of Correction and Delaware State Police, Department of Safety and Homeland Security
Petitioner alleged that the Delaware State Police, Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security (“DSP”) and Delaware Department of Correction (“DOC”) violated FOIA by improperly denying access to records and by failing to provide an index of withheld records and sufficient specificity about the facts in response to the requests.
DECIDED: The DOC and DSP did not violate FOIA, as the requested records are exempt from disclosure under the pending litigation exemption, and neither the additional specificity nor an index were required to be included with the public bodies’ responses to the requests.
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