Iowa Administrative Code
Agency 497 - Iowa Public Information Board
Chapter 7 - Fair Information Practices
Rule 497-7.11 - Availability of Records
Universal Citation: IA Admin Code 497-7.11
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 13, December 25, 2024
(1) Open records. Board records are open for public inspection and copying unless otherwise prohibited by current rule or law.
(2) Confidential records. The following records may be kept confidential. Records are listed by category, according to the legal basis for withholding them from public inspection.
a. Records obtained under subpoena or through
a board investigation that are confidential under Iowa Code section
22.7 or any another provision of
law;
b. Minutes of closed meetings
of a governmental body (Iowa Code section
21.5(4)
);
c. Identifying details in final
orders, decisions and opinions to the extent required to prevent a clearly
unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or trade secrets under Iowa Code
section 17A.3(1)
"d";
d. Those
portions of agency staff manuals, instructions, or other statements issued
which set forth criteria or guidelines to be used by agency staff in auditing,
in making inspections, in settling commercial disputes or negotiating
commercial arrangements, or in the selection or handling of cases, such as
operational tactics or allowable tolerance or criteria for the defense,
prosecution or settlement of cases, when disclosure of these statements would:
(1) Enable law violators to avoid
detection;
(2) Facilitate disregard
of requirements imposed by law; or
(3) Give a clearly improper advantage to
persons who are in an adverse position to the agency;
e. Records which constitute attorney work
product, or attorney-client communications, or which are otherwise privileged.
Attorney work product is confidential under Iowa Code sections
22.7(4),
622.10 and
622.11, Iowa Rule of Civil
Procedure 1.503(3), Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(3), and case law.
Attorney-client communications are confidential under Iowa Code sections
622.10 and
622.11, the rules of evidence,
the Code of Professional Responsibility and case law; or
f. Other records made confidential by
law.
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