Why Should Delaware Care?The Police Athletic League of Delaware, which serves hundreds of children in New Castle County, is one of dozens of nonprofits that are regularly funded by taxpayers. Up until last year, it also was one of a handful of organizations led by a lawmaker. Today, its youth operations face issues after the state froze its latest round of grants.
Two months after former-House Speaker Valerie Longhurst quietly resigned from the Police Athletic League of Delaware, two county police officers are overseeing the cash-strapped and taxpayer-funded organization through a budding financial crisis.
In a presentation Tuesday to the New Castle County Council, those officers laid out the challenging path ahead for the community center organization as it faces a criminal investigation, and an audit that could force it to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars it likely does not have…