Monks, Iowa – The governor of Iowa sued on Friday to the registration of DES MOINS for the request for open records of the newspaper, asking the Court to validate the retention of its office of certain emails that states that they are protected.
A registration reporter submitted a record request in February to the office of Governor Kim Reynolds, according to the complaint. In response, the Office of the Republican governor provided 825 pages of relevant documents and retained four emails, stating that they were protected because they intended to be confidential, and the dissemination would inhibit the governor’s ability to receive sincere, complete and robust information in the future, “according to the response of the office included in the presentations.
A lawyer continued on behalf of the registration last week, according to judicial documents, arguing that the so -called executive privilege is not an exemption in the Open Registry Law of Iowa and, even if it were, there were no indications that the governor sent or received the emails. The lawyer, Susan P. Elgin, described the “legally indefensible” retention and requested that the records occur in a week.
Instead, Iowa attorney general Brenna Bird sued Friday to ask the Court to intervene, as allowed by Iowa’s law, and force registration to stop his search for records. Associated Press sent an email to Elgin Friday requesting comments. The matrix company of the Registry, Gannett Co., said in an email that does not comment on pending litigation.
In a statement, the governor’s office said it was unfortunate that public resources would be used to defend the retention of the governor’s records.
“It is interesting from the public that governors can receive sincere advice from their closest advisors,” said spokesman Mason Mauro.
In 2023, the Iowa Supreme Court rejected Reynolds’s request that the court throws a lawsuit related to the records filed against it by the Heartland Heartland blog of liberal tombs, Iowa Capital Dispatch and Iowa Freedom Council, a non -profit organization that focuses on the problems of the open government. The organizations and some of their reporters sued accusing Reynolds of violating the State’s open record law by ignoring record requests and not producing records in a timely manner.
The registration, together with the newspaper company of the newspaper and its former polls, is also appointed in a Archive demand By President Donald Trump, representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks and former state senator of Iowa Brad Zaun.
