Kent County Deputy Sheriffs' Ass'n v. Kent County Sheriff

In this lawsuit brought under the Freedom of Information Act (foia), 1 and the Employee Right to Know Act (erka), 2 plaintiff, Kent County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association (hereinafter the association), sought the release of documents from defendants, Kent County Sheriff and Kent County. 3 The association wanted defendant’s internal affairs files, i.e., the records and witness statements defendant kept relating to defendant’s investigation of two deputy sheriffs disciplined for violating agency rules. In an earlier agency proceeding between the same parties, but involving different deputies, the…