The Middletown Mayor & Council established a Police Accountability Committee on Jan. 13, 2025. The Committee held its first meeting on Jan. 15, 2025. The group will meet quarterly.

Middletown Councilman David Thomas will serve as Chairman of the Committee and worked with the Middletown Mayor & Council to appoint members who met the requirements of the 2023 Delaware Law amending Title 11 of the Delaware Code.

The Code requires that all police departments, establish either individually or in combination with other departments, police accountability committees or boards to provide advice to departments on policy, training, and other issues relating to or affecting the department and the communities served by the department. The requirement shall recommend that a police accountability committee or board must include in its membership a religious leader from the community and members of the community who have been impacted directly or are immediate family members or caregivers of those impacted by the juvenile or adult criminal justice system. Non-officer members shall be required, within 1 year of appointment, to complete 20 hours of community training with the departments overseen by the applicable board, which may include ride-alongs or a citizen’s police academy. Additional mandates for membership or structure may be included.  Police accountability committees or boards are subject to the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, Chapter 100 of Title 29.

AGENDAS & MINUTES

JAN. 15, 2025
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MINUTES

MARCH 12, 2025
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MINUTES

JUNE 11, 2025 (next meeting)

The members of the Committee were appointed as follows:

Martin Bradshaw

• Middletown resident for 15 years.
• Regularly attends the monthly Mayor & Council Meeting
• Active member of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church
• Retired from a long career in sales at Ecolab Inc.

Carol Bright

• Middletown resident for 8 years.
• Volunteers with Appoquinimink School District
• Active member of the Middletown NAACP
• Involved in numerous Programs
  • Cale Cares
  • Citizens Police Academy
  • DEA Drug Take Back
  • Parkside Community Association
• Previously on the Westbury, NY School District Advisory Board

Pastor Alan Jones

• Has been a pastor for almost 30 years
• Has lived in Middletown for more than 24 years.
• Pastor at Connections Community Church
• Helped create Connections Community Church

Matt Kolbjornsen

• Born and raised in Middletown.
• MHS graduate 2022
• Varsity Football & Golf
• Content Creator on Tick Tok
• Student Pilot

Matthew Luckini

• Middletown resident for 25 years
• Private Business owner of Sweet Dreams Confections
• Manager of 5 restaurants, 2 located in Middletown

Nicole Maltby

• Middletown resident for 20 years
• Advocate for her development Millbranch
• Private owner of Source Hypnotherapy
• 4 children through the Appoquinimink School System

James Reynolds

• Lived in Middletown his entire life, 75 years
• Vice Mayor for 32 years
• Life member of the Volunteer Hose Fire Company
• 20 years on Board of Directors of Middletown Little League
• Co-founder of the MOT Youth Football
• Currently Board of Director on the MOT Senior Center

Sara Shaw

• General Manager at Wawa, Rt. 299 near Rt. 1

Billy Warrick

• Middletown resident for more than 25 years
• Previously on the Middletown Police Advisory Board
• Retired Wilmington Police, expert on traffic investigations