The state of open records laws: a promise of citizen information honeycombed with loopholes
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By Caitlin Ginley, iWatch News by The Center for Public Integrity
Early last month, lawmakers in Iowa completed work on a new open records statute. Senate File 430 creates the Iowa Public Information Board, a nine-member commission charged with enforcing the state’s open records and meetings laws.
For good government advocates in the Hawkeye State, the new legislation was cause for celebration — sort of.