Update: School Official Cites Personnel Exemption in Withholding Survey Evaluation of Murley
A school board attorney says the documents are protected under Iowa Code.
Updated May 15: Swesey said the school board's attorney advised not to disclose the documents, citing the personnel exemption in the Iowa Code: “Personal information in confidential personnel records of government bodies relating to identified or identifiable individuals who are officials, officers, or employees of the government bodies.” Pervious coverage: Iowa City school officials say they won't release results of a survey evaluating the superintendent and an Iowa open government expert says that's probably OK under the state's open records law. Iowa City school board President Marla Swesey told the Press-Citizen this week that the more than 600 responses the district received will be kept private. The records are being withheld because…
Maria Houser Conzemius
9:22 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
I think it's incidental that the superintendent survey offered to the public for feedback has become part of the superintendent's job performance evaluation. A public survey should be open to public scrutiny. If the public was promised confidentiality in the survey, confidentiality should be preserved, but only as to the identity of who said what. more ›