Iowa Supreme Court: Sioux City school board meetings were legally closed

By: Clark Kauffman

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: April 17, 2026

Words: 872

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Sioux City Community School District and its board members did not violate the Iowa Open Meetings Law during a closed-door evaluation of former superintendent Paul Gausman, the Iowa Supreme Court has ruled.

Friday’s ruling stems from an appeal filed by Gausman, and a cross-appeal filed by the school district, in a lawsuit concerning two closed-session board discussions in 2022.

The board closed the first of those two meetings, in January 2022, to “evaluate the …

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