Delaware crime

Final amended HB 78, enacted as Volume 84, Chapter 207, regulates transactions involving used detached catalytic converters. It limits authorized sellers and purchasers, requires identification, ownership and vehicle records and photographs, restricts cash purchases and sets transaction hours and locations. Authorized purchasers must withhold payment and retain the intact converter for 48 hours, excluding holidays and weekends. The definition excludes converters certified and labeled for EPA-compliant reuse. The converter rule is a payment-withholding and intact-retention period; the separate 72-hour rule applies to specified copper or brass articles. Approval does not prove inspections, enforcement, recovery of stolen parts or lower property-crime rates.

Retained Delaware evidence context: Reported property-crime rate · crime · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

must withhold payment to the seller of a catalytic converter for 48 hours, not including holidays or weekends.

Final amended HB 444, the Delaware John Lewis Voting Rights Act, adds a civil route to challenge voter intimidation, deception and obstruction. Its anti-intimidation provisions cover force, violence, restraint, abduction, duress and threats that interfere with voting. Eligible individuals, organizations and the Attorney General may seek tailored civil remedies, attorney fees and specified damages. The act takes effect July 1, 2027, after signing. This crime-topic relationship covers civil remedies for intimidation and obstruction; it does not create new criminal penalties or establish lower violent-crime rates. Voting discrimination, districting and language-access provisions are reviewed separately and are not treated as health, housing, education, budget or CPI programs.

Retained Delaware evidence context: Registered-voter turnout · crime · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

The use or threat to use any force, violence, restraint, abduction, or duress

Final amended HB 444, the Delaware John Lewis Voting Rights Act, adds a civil route to challenge voter intimidation, deception and obstruction. Its anti-intimidation provisions cover force, violence, restraint, abduction, duress and threats that interfere with voting. Eligible individuals, organizations and the Attorney General may seek tailored civil remedies, attorney fees and specified damages. The act takes effect July 1, 2027, after signing. This crime-topic relationship covers civil remedies for intimidation and obstruction; it does not create new criminal penalties or establish lower violent-crime rates. Voting discrimination, districting and language-access provisions are reviewed separately and are not treated as health, housing, education, budget or CPI programs.

Retained Delaware evidence context: Registered-voter turnout · crime · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

The use or threat to use any force, violence, restraint, abduction, or duress

HB 369, enacted as Volume 85, Chapter 468, codifies an Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety within Safety and Homeland Security. It directs intergovernmental coordination, advice on prevention and intervention, recurring-issue reporting and cooperation from relevant state agencies. The office was previously established by EO 9 on May 1, 2025. This statutory milestone does not show a second independent prevention program, a new appropriation, completed interventions or a measured reduction in gun injuries, deaths or crime.

Retained Delaware evidence context: Firearm deaths · Homicide deaths · Reported violent-crime rate · health · reviewed Delaware policy context · crime · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

There is hereby established, within the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, an Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety

Final amended HB 444, the Delaware John Lewis Voting Rights Act, adds a civil route to challenge voter intimidation, deception and obstruction. Its anti-intimidation provisions cover force, violence, restraint, abduction, duress and threats that interfere with voting. Eligible individuals, organizations and the Attorney General may seek tailored civil remedies, attorney fees and specified damages. The act takes effect July 1, 2027, after signing. This crime-topic relationship covers civil remedies for intimidation and obstruction; it does not create new criminal penalties or establish lower violent-crime rates. Voting discrimination, districting and language-access provisions are reviewed separately and are not treated as health, housing, education, budget or CPI programs.

Retained Delaware evidence context: Registered-voter turnout · crime · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

The use or threat to use any force, violence, restraint, abduction, or duress

Final amended SB 249, enacted as Volume 85, Chapter 536, establishes evidence-based licensing for harm-reduction providers, required supplies and services, participant anonymity, limited program data collection, referrals and conditional good-faith immunity. It revises drug-paraphernalia definitions and exempts specified personal-use, storage, testing and consumption supplies while retaining manufacturing, distribution and specified sales prohibitions. Signing and the bill page’s September 30 effective date are distinct from licensing regulations, provider licenses and service delivery. Immunity requires good faith and reasonable care and has express misconduct exceptions. Referrals do not guarantee housing, benefits or treatment, and the act does not decriminalize all drug possession or establish lower overdose deaths or crime rates. The chart does not isolate this action’s effect.

Retained Delaware evidence context: health · reviewed Delaware policy context · crime · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

A program must not require a one-for-one exchange of sterile supplies.

SS 1 for SB 161, enacted as Volume 85, Chapter 461, revises behavioral-health provider licensing, oversight and enforcement. It establishes client rights and provider duties, incident reporting and investigations, protection-and-advocacy access, confidentiality and remedies. It creates specified offenses for unlawful unlicensed treatment and intentional reporting violations, with civil penalties and anti-retaliation protections. Section 11 makes sections 6, 7 and 10–12 effective immediately. Section 12 also makes sections 1–5, 8 and 9 effective immediately but sets implementation for the earlier of two years after enactment or the Director’s published notice of final implementing regulations. Licensing exemptions and lawful limits on client rights apply. Signing does not prove completed regulations, provider compliance, improved health or reduced crime. The chart does not isolate this action’s effect.

Retained Delaware evidence context: health · reviewed Delaware policy context · crime · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Sections 1 through 5, 8, and 9 of this Act are effective immediately and are to be implemented the earlier of the following: