1. Meetings of the farm mediation service are closed meetings and are not subject to chapter 21.
2. Verbal or written information relating to the mediation process and transmitted between a party to a dispute and the farm mediation service, including a mediator or the mediation staff, or any other person present during any stage of the mediation process conducted by the service, whether reflected in notes, memoranda, or other work products in the case files, is a confidential communication. Mediators and staff members shall not be examined in any judicial or administrative proceeding regarding confidential communications and are not subject to judicial or administrative process requiring the disclosure of confidential communications.
3. Confidentiality is also protected as provided in section 654A.13.
90 Acts, ch 1143, §4
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