In 2025, the Levin Center conducted a study of all 50 states to examine how legislatures ensure government programs work effectively for citizens. Factors such as legislative oversight committees, routine engagement with executive agencies, collection of casework data, digital transparency tools, and user-centered policy evaluation were of particular importance. The full report can be found here.
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The state of Delaware provides constituents with plenty of opportunities to submit their input and feedback on their websites. The oversight committee’s page has a section called “Stay Connected and Engaged” where users can find links to submit public comments, view a public meeting calendar, join the mailing list, and access the Division of Research’s Twitter account. Legislative websites also include easy ways to contact individual legislators.
Despite the number of opportunities for public input and the ease with which users can make their voices heard, there is minimal evidence that the public makes use of these opportunities in a committee setting. Of the four oversight committees surveyed, only one (the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee) showed public input was being received and heard during any of their meetings and this occurred on only one occasion. In addition, only one public committee report could be accessed via the committees’ websites and no ground-level program implementation data was available directly on the Legislature’s website nor on any of its oversight partners’ websites.
