Plenty of shadows remain across local governments and school districts some 35 years after passage of Delaware's Sunshine Law, one of the state's leading good-government groups concluded recently.
In a statewide audit of Freedom of Information Act compliance, the League of Women Voters of Delaware found wide variation in the time needed to answer requests for records and the completeness of responses. Though routine meeting records were widely available, only about half of the FOIA processes used by 40 different agencies were considered "user-friendly."
Several agencies asked to be given reasons for information requests, despite the law's unqualified requirement for release.
"We got the agenda and minutes and budgets pretty well, but there was a lot of resistance to salary and expense accounts," said Margaret M. McKay, FOIA project chairman for the league.
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