Delaware State Bar Association

405 North King Street
Suite 100
Wilmington, DE 19801
United States

http://www.dsba.org

Though the Delaware State Bar Association is a voluntary, non-unified organization, 90 percent of private lawyers in Delaware are members. The DBA was founded in 1923 and sought to advance the science of jurisprudence, secure proper law reform, preserve proper standards for Bar members, maintain the honor and dignity of the legal profession, uphold legal ethics and professional responsibility, cultivate fraternal relationships among lawyers and judiciaries, and perpetuate legal history. The Executive Committee for the association consists of 26 members, with vice presidents representing one of each county.

Delaware State Bar Association is not in compliance with the nationwide, public-facing, Brady List; or:

Supreme Court of the United States [SCOTUS] Brady doctrine (1963);
US Freedom of Information Act (1967);
State Sunshine Law (see, below);
Open Government Act (2007);
Open Government Initiative (2009); and,
Open Government Directives (2009) issued by the United States Department of Justice.

This information has been curated by journalists and private citizens; and, this platform is available as-a-service to all Peace Officer Standards & Training [POST] Departments, Prosecutors, and Law Enforcement Organizations [LEOrgs].

Our Priorities

Ensure enforcement discretion. The Brady List does not apply Machine Learning [ML], Artificial Intelligence [AI], or any other coded mechanism.
Empower prosecutorial disclosure. This Brady List as a platform automates the compilation of data across entire jurisdictions for prosecutors.
Enable judicial oversight. This Brady List platform is the first of its kind to serve the judiciary as a method to ensure delivery of Brady Material Disclosures.
Build trust in the community through transparency. This Brady List is now, and always will be, open to the public.
Demonstrate accountability. The Brady List encourages law enforcement, prosecutors, and the judiciary to demonstrate their entire workflow from complaint intake through categorization, investigation, and conclusion.

In order to provide this service to 20,000+ Organizations, POST Departments, and Prosecutors nationwide. We have standardized the input, date and time stamped the output, incorporated an epistemology of Brady Offenses, Public Complaints, and Use-of-Force Reports.

Delaware Freedom of Information Act

Title 29, Chapter 100

The Delaware Freedom of Information Act, first established in 1977, is a series of laws guaranteeing that the public has access to the public records of governmental bodies. Public records are defined as information of any kind, owned, made, used, retained, received, produced, composed, drafted or otherwise compiled or collected by any public body, relating in any way to public business, or in any way of public interest or in any way related to public purposes.

Any citizen of Delaware may request public documents and the purpose of the records request is not required. The Delaware Freedom of Information Act does not place limits on the use of public records and there is a 15 day response time allotted.

We the People

We the People have a Right to Know according to the Supreme Court of the United States [SCOTUS], past Presidents (of both major political parties), Congress, and the United States Department of Justice. As an expression of that Right to Know, we have coordinated valuable information from a number of resources into a single, public-facing, searchable database.

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