November 2, 2007
State Digest: Iowa Regents Admit to Breaking Open-Meetings Law and Other News From the States
The Iowa Board of Regents has admitted that it violated the state's open-meetings laws last year during a problem-plagued search for a new president of the University of Iowa, and it has reached a settlement with the Iowa City Press-Citizen, a newspaper that sued over its actions.
The lawsuit challenged the board's use of "rolling meetings," a tactic that allowed it to recess a meeting without adjourning, then reconvene at a later date under the scope of the same
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