VACCARO v. POLK COUNTY

No. 21-1651.

983 N.W.2d 54 (2022)

Michelle VACCARO, Appellee, v. POLK COUNTY, Iowa, and Polk County Sheriff Kevin Schneider, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed December 16, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Sarcone , County Attorney, and Julie J. Bussanmas and Meghan L. Gavin , Assistant County Attorneys, for appellants.

Gary Dickey of Dickey, Campbell, & Sahag Law Firm, PLC, Des Moines, for appellee.

Waterman, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all justices joined.


In this interlocutory appeal, we revisit the interplay between our civil discovery rules and Iowa Code section 22.7(5) (2019), a confidentiality provision for police investigations in the Open Records Act. The plaintiff's daughter was a passenger killed in a motorcycle crash. The plaintiff settled her tort action against the driver...

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