Iowa Public Records
March 22nd, 2005 | Published in Public Records
Colleen Krantz of the Des Moines Register and Janet Rorholm of the Cedar Rapids Gazette report that a newspaper audit of public records in Iowa shows that “law enforcement agencies in Iowa provided greater access to their public documents during a recent investigation by Iowa newspapers than the agencies did five years ago, yet police departments and sheriff offices still violated the law by withholding records about a third of the time.” City clerks and county government agencies provided better access to records this time, according to the audit, which was assisted by Drake University journalism students. A searchable database of results is available.