KOPPES v. CITY OF WATERLOO

No. 88-367.

445 N.W.2d 774 (1989)

Margaret KOPPES, Michael Sonnleitner, James William Price, Donald Carver, Robert Ellis, Nancy C. Hemesath, Philip Rieman, Barbara Ann Kildea, and Donald Zmolek, Appellants, v. CITY OF WATERLOO, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 20, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Zimmermann, Cedar Rapids, and Jon M. Kinnamon, Cedar Rapids, for appellants.

Timothy J. Luce, Asst. City Atty., Waterloo, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LARSON, LAVORATO, NEUMAN, and ANDREASEN, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

The issue in this appeal is whether arrest information stored in Waterloo's police computer must be expunged under Iowa Code section 692.17 (1987) on the defendants' acquittal of the criminal charges. The district court held that the city was not subject to section 692.17, and we agree.

Margaret Koppes and eight others (collectively referred to as Koppes) were arrested and tried for criminal trespass. After all nine were acquitted, they asked...

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