Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 621 - Public Employment Relations Board › Chapter 12 - Public Records and Fair Information Practices (Uniform Rules) › Rule 621-12.11 - Availability of Records

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
(1)
General.
Agency records are open for public inspection and
			 copying unless otherwise provided by rule or law.
(2)
Confidential records.
The following records may be withheld from public inspection. Records are
			 listed by category, according to the legal basis for withholding them from
			 public inspection.
a. Records which are exempt
			 from disclosure pursuant to Iowa Code section
			 22.7.
b. Minutes of closed meetings of a government
			 body pursuant to Iowa Code section
			 21.5(5).
c. Mediators' documents, including proposals,
			 notes, memoranda, or other paperwork product, relating to mediation of agency
			 cases and collective bargaining negotiations pursuant to Iowa Code section
			 20.31.
d. A show of interest
			 contained in representation and decertification case files, in which public
			 employees indicate by original signature whether they wish to be represented by
			 or decertify a certified employee organization for representation or
			 decertification election pursuant to Iowa Code section
			 22.7(69).
e. Those portions of agency staff manuals,
			 instructions or other statements issued which set forth criteria or guidelines
			 to be used by the agency when disclosure of these statements would:
(1) Enable law violators to avoid
			 detection.
(2) Facilitate disregard
			 of requirements imposed by law.
(3)
			 Give a clearly improper advantage to persons who are in an adverse position to
			 the agency. (See Iowa Code sections
			 17A.2 and
			 17A.3.)
f. Records which
			 constitute attorney work product, attorney-client communications, or which are
			 otherwise privileged. Attorney work product is confidential pursuant to Iowa
			 Code sections
			 22.7(4),
			 622.10, and
			 622.11; Iowa R.
			 Civ. P. 1.503; Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b); and case law. Attorney-client
			 communications are confidential pursuant to Iowa Code sections 622.10 and
			 622.11, the rules
			 of evidence, the Code of Professional Responsibility, and case law.
g. Sealed bids received prior to the time set
			 for public opening of bids pursuant to Iowa Code section
			 72.3.
h. Individual financial records pursuant to
			 Iowa Code sections
			 422.20
			 and
			 422.72.
i. Identifying details in final orders,
			 decisions, and opinions to the extent required to prevent a clearly unwarranted
			 invasion of personal privacy pursuant to Iowa Code section
			 17A.3(1)
"e."
j.
			 Criminal investigative reports or investigative data pursuant to Iowa Code
			 section
			 22.7(5).
k. Criminal history and intelligence data
			 pursuant to Iowa Code sections
			 22.7(9),
			 692.3,
			 and
			 692.18.
l. Minutes of testimony pursuant to Iowa
			 Rules of Criminal Procedure 2.4(6)(a) and 2.5(3).
m. Information which is confidential under
			 the law governing the agency providing information to this agency.
n. Biographical or identifying information
			 about a child victim pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 915.
o. Victim registration pursuant to Iowa Code
			 chapter 915.
p. Any other records
			 made confidential by law.