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Proposed Delaware FOIA reform does not go far enough with higher education

Thanks to Redwaterlilly there is an easy reference to the proposed FOIA changes. Here's one section that is NOT marked up for change: (d) “Public body,” “public record” and “meeting” shall not include activities of the University of Delaware and Delaware State University, except that the Board of Trustees of the University and the Board of Trustees of the University shall be “public bodies,” and University and University documents relating to the expenditure of public funds shall be “public records,” and each meeting of the full Board of Trustees of either institution shall be a “meeting.” Read that closely. At UD and DSU--which between them spend tens of millions of State and Federal funds each year-- only the Boards of Trustees are considered public bodies and therefore subject to FOIA inquiries. Here's the accountability problem with that: Both the Board at UD and the Board at DSU have adopted a specific strategy for avoiding FOIA and operational transparency. They opera...