NORTHEAST COUNCIL v. DEPT. OF PUBLIC HEALTH

No. 93-424.

513 N.W.2d 757 (1994)

NORTHEAST COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INC., Appellant, v. IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, DIVISION OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE, Appellee, and Covenant Medical Center, Intervenor-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 23, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roberta Rae Gilbert of Zanville & Zimmermann, Iowa City, for appellant.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., Julie Pottorff, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Maureen McGuire, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant-appellee.

Edwin W. McIntosh of Dorsey & Whitney, Des Moines, for intervenor-appellee.

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


LAVORATO, Justice.

At issue in this appeal is whether prior grant applications for public funds are confidential records under Iowa's freedom of information act. See Iowa Code ch. 22 (1991). The district court did not think so and refused to enjoin their release to a competitor of the entity seeking the funds. We agree and affirm.

Northeast Council on Substance Abuse, Inc. (NECSA) is a small nonprofit substance abuse treatment facility. Its primary...

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