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Let the public see what government boards see
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IN RECENT WEEKS, people from Cherokee, Des Moines and Ottumwa have contacted the Iowa Freedom of Information Council with concerns about the refusal of local officials to share documents distributed to city...
D.M. school officials met the law — but missed the point
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YOU WOULD THINK a school district readily knows its A-B-C’s.
Not the Des Moines Public Schools — at least not when informing the public what its 6,600 employees were paid during the academic year that e...
Don Pardo, what has Hendrik Van Pelt won?
Traffic surveillance cameras owned and operated by Flock Group Inc. are at the center of an Iowa man’s quest for a map of their locations in West Des Moines. Photo courtesy of Flock Group.
GAMES SHOWS HAVE one virtue Iowa’s open-records en...
Iowa Supreme Court still preaches open gov’t, but the choir is splintering
Since 2003, the Iowa Supreme Court sits in the judicial branch building southeast of the Capitol in Des Moines. Photo courtesy of the Iowa Judicial Branch.
The Iowa Supreme Court typically opens its rulings on the state’s public-records an...
The law says explain, but Polk County didn't
In 2017 the Iowa Legislature made it clear that the public deserved to know facts about the termination of government workers.
NOVELIST CHARLES DICKENS poked his quill pen at government bureaucracy 175 years ago with his accounts about a...
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