Fired UI administrator files open records request

The Associated Press

IOWA CITY (AP) — A former University of Iowa vice president who was fired in the aftermath of a sexual assault investigation has filed an open records request with his former employer.

Phillip Jones was dismissed in September.

He is seeking information about sexual harassment investigations, access to correspondences between himself and Iowa President Sally Mason and between himself and athletic department officials.

Mason fired Jones after an investigation by the Stolar Partnership, a Missouri-based law firm, which examined Iowa’s handling of a 2007 sexual assault case involving two former football players.

School officials did not immediately know what the status of Jones’ request was, which was filed on Sept. 29.