Delaware State Employees (2019 - 2022)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Delaware Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

Quarterly electronic listings of all employees of the Delaware Executive Branch from January 1, 2019 to the present. Specifically, I am seeking electronic listings of all individuals employed within the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor and all state agencies, commissions, and departments at four points in time per year from 2019 to the present.

For each quarterly listing, I’m seeking a spreadsheet, database, or delimited text file(s) — not paper records or a PDF created from data — with the following fields for each employee: full legal name, title, department or agency, race, gender, full-time/part-time status, hire date, termination date, and gross annual salary. If you cannot produce any of these fields, please let me know and continue generating the available variables.

If these data are not available at quarterly intervals, please produce the datasets at the most frequent interval possible. For example, if the data is not available quarterly, please produce the data at bi-annual intervals. If the data is not available at bi-annual intervals, please produce it at annual intervals.

In addition, please include any lookup tables that may be needed to interpret the data. For example, if departments are listed with codes linked to a separate table, I will be happy to join the records myself, rather than require your staff to do so.

I am comfortable working with large data sets and can receive the records in a variety of formats (.dbf, .csv, .mdb, etc).

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 15 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Rudenberg, a citizen of Delaware, in coordination with Ben Goehring.