489—5.13(22) Availability of records.
	5.13(1) General. Agency records are open for public inspection and copying unless otherwise provided by rule or law.
	5.13(2) Confidential records. The following records may be withheld from public inspection. Records are listed by category, according to the legal basis for withholding them from public inspection.
	a. 	Sealed bids received prior to the time set for public opening of bids. (Iowa Code section 72.3)
	b. 	Tax records made available to the agency.
	c. 	Exempt records under Iowa Code section 22.7.
	d. 	Minutes of closed meetings of a government body. (Iowa Code section 21.5(4))
	e. 	Identifying details in final orders, decisions and opinions to the extent required to prevent a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or trade secrets under Iowa Code section 17A.3(1)“d.”
	f. 	Those portions of department staff manuals, instructions or other statements issued which set forth criteria or guidelines to be used by department staff in auditing, in making inspections, in settling commercial disputes or negotiating commercial arrangements, or in the selection or handling of cases, such as operational tactics or allowable tolerances or criteria for the defense, prosecution or settlement of cases, when disclosure of these statements would:
	(1)	Enable law violators to avoid detection;
	(2)	Facilitate disregard of requirements imposed by law; or
	(3)	Give a clearly improper advantage to persons who are in an adverse position to the agency. (Iowa Code sections 17A.2 and 17A.3)
	g. 	Case records and files of the children in care.
	h. 	The foster care registry which is a computerized tracking system of the children in care.
	i. 	Any other records made confidential by law.
Iowa Code section 237.21 contains specific authority.
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