Three media organizations and their reporters sued Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Thursday, alleging she has repeatedly violated the state’s open-records laws by ignoring requests for government records, the Associated Press reported. The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa is representing Laura Belin, who operates the liberal-leaning Bleeding Heartland blog; Randy Evans, executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council; and Clark Kauffman, a reporter for the Iowa Capital Dispatch. The reporters say they have tried to get public records from Reynolds’ office starting as early as April 2020 without success despite waiting for months and in some cases well over a year. Often, the governor’s office didn’t acknowledge the records requests or respond to inquiries. “Iowa’s open-records law was written expressly so that politicians and others couldn’t do exactly this kind of stonewalling,” Belin said. “Gov. Reynolds is not above the law.” A spokesman for the Republican governor did not immediately respond to AP to comment on the lawsuit.