ACLU Files Suit over Records in Atlantic Strip Search Incident
The ACLU Foundation of Iowa announced today [February 25, 2010] that it has filed an open records lawsuit in district court to force the Atlantic Community School District to reveal what discipline, if any, was imposed on two school officials who conducted a strip search of five high school girls in apparent violation of Iowa law.
On November 6, 2009, the ACLU of Iowa sent an open records request to the Atlantic school district requesting the identity of the two officials involved and a description of any employment discipline they had received. Five days later Attorney Brett Nitzschke of Cedar Rapids responded to the ACLU-IA’s request by revealing the identities of the two officials, but he declined to state what discipline they received on grounds that it would violate the privacy of the employees involved.
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