Glenwood records access tab is $2,280, state says
November 3, 2008: The Iowa Department of Human Services says anyone wanting access to selected e-mails about the decisions made at the troubled Glenwood home for the disabled will first have to pay $2,280.
Last week, The Des Moines Register asked for eight weeks' worth of department e-mails related to the state-run Glenwood Resource Center, where 10 residents have died this year.
In response, department spokesman Roger Munns said there were 6,850 e-mails that were potentially relevant to the Register's request made under Iowa's open-records law. Read the full article here.
UI sues over public-records law
October 23, 2008: The UI entered into a lawsuit with the Des Moines Register Tuesday, seeking clearer guidelines in regard to public-records requests.
The suit - filed on behalf of the UI by the Iowa Attorney General's Office - is in response to an Oct. 1 request by the Register, which asked the UI for all documents related to sexual assaults involving UI students within the past three years. Read the full article here.
Democrats turn over Republican court files
October 5, 2008: Iowa Democrats scoured public records and documented that several Republican Iowa House candidates have criminal charges in their backgrounds.
Then they provided a neatly labeled binder full of records to The Des Moines Register.
Republicans are furious that Democrats delved so deeply into their personal lives by poring over public documents on bitter small-claims cases, financial woes, child-support disputes and messy divorces. Read the full article here.
Local TV station files petition asking city for e-mails
September 30, 2008: KGAN-TV (Channel 2) is accusing the city of Cedar Rapids and the Cedar Rapids City Council of violating the Iowa Open Records Act.
Sinclair Acquisition IV, owner of KGAN-TV, is asking the city to turn over copies of e-mails sent to and from the e-mail accounts of all City Council members between the dates of June 11 and Sept. 9, according to petition filed Friday in Linn County District Court. Read the full article here.
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