Two in three Iowans polled favor the creation of a board in state government to handle citizen complaints about violations of open meetings and access to government documents. The findings come as Gov. Terry Branstad has joined open government advocates in pushing the Legislature to create such a board, staffed by a full-time attorney, to [...]
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From the Des Moines Register: Winning a criminal court case does not mean that defendants are allowed to have their electronic court records hidden from public view, Iowa Supreme Court justices ruled this morning. But justices left the door open to possible further action by them to address concerns raised in two Linn and Polk [...]
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From Iowa, a fresh helping of FOI hypocrisy: Lawmakers are considering creation of a new board to better enforce Iowa’s open records and meetings laws, but there’s a notable exemption from the board’s oversight: the governor and his office. The board’s oversight also would not extend to operations of the legislative and judicial branches, reflecting [...]
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Thanks to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press… The Iowa Supreme Court will weigh whether a federal student privacy law should override a state open records law, after the court heard oral arguments Oct. 15 over a university’s withholding of documents in a sexual assault case. In November 2007, the Iowa City Press-Citizen [...]
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