Iowa Civil Rights Commission v. City of Des Moines/Personnel Department

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• holding statutory exceptions are inapplicable when Commission issues subpoena duces tecum, but other protections afforded by law may apply
• “Administrative agencies are normally invested with broad investigative powers to enable them to effectively carry out their legislative mandates.”
• “Administrative agencies are normally invested with broad investigative powers to enable them to effectively carry out their legislative mandates.”
• “The purpose of [the Act] is to open the doors of government to public scrutiny—to prevent government from secreting its decision-making activities from the public, on whose behalf it is its duty to act.”
• “The purpose of [the Act] is to open the doors of government to public scrutiny — to prevent government from secreting its decision-making activities from the public, on whose behalf it is its duty to act.”
• discussing the predecessor statute of chapter 22

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