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.
Index: Probe yielded 3,200 pages of documents
September 16, 2008: The University of Iowa withheld hundreds, if not thousands, of pages documents in response to open records requests related to its handling of the Oct. 14, 2007, alleged sexual assault involving former Hawkeye football players. Read the full article here.
Access to your government: A mixed bag
September 16, 2008: The Iowa Freedom of Information Council's annual meeting takes place Friday in Des Moines, so it has me reflecting on the status of public access to government.
The bottom line: It could be worse, but it could be a whole lot better. Read the full column here.
District judge denies injunction in county administrator hiring
September 11, 2008: Concluding a sometimes testy hearing, Scott County District Judge Charles H. Pelton denied a temporary injunction against Scott County over open meetings and open records in the hiring of a county administrator.
Tuesday’s ruling went against Thomas C. Fritzsche, a former assistant county attorney who filed a lawsuit in June claiming the Board of Supervisors violated the state’s Open Meetings Act during the hiring process for county administrator. Read the full article here.
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