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Delaware

Delaware Freedom of Information Act

29 Del. C. § 10001 et seq.

Public records law for Delaware. Covers state agencies, counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts.

The clock

15 business days

15 business days to respond.

Statutory: 15 business days to respond.. Actual medians vary widely by agency and request complexity; simple requests often 7-30 days, complex 60-300+.

Reading the statute itself

The text of this one is not reproduced here. The United States Code carries no copyright, so federal FOIA is printed on this site in full; the fifty state codes are published by fifty legislatures under their own claims of compilation copyright, so they are linked instead. Everything on this page — the deadline, the appeal path, the fee-waiver standard — is Aletheca’s summary of that text, and the official source is one click away.

If they refuse

Appeal deadline
Not specified
Appeal route
Petition to Attorney General or Chancery Court; AG advisory opinions.
Litigation
Not specified

Fees and expedition

Quirks worth knowing

AG opinions common; relatively fast.