Iowa argues open-records law is not ‘well-recognized’ policy
BPC Staff Aug 4, 2021 | 3:50 pm
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70 wordsAll Latest News, Government Policy and Law, Statewide NewsAssociated Press: Iowa’s open-records law is not “a well-recognized public policy” and thus does not give job protections to employees who fulfill public information requests, the state attorney general’s office contends. State lawyers representing Gov. Kim Reynolds and her spokesman, Pat Garrett, make that assertion in asking a judge to dismiss a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by Polly Carver Kimm, the Iowa Department of Public Health’s former longtime communications director.