Iowa Public Information Board Legal Counsel, Alexander Lee:
Pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 22, I am requesting the following public records:
1. Annual reporting data showing the State of Iowa’s allocated fiscal budget amounts for the Iowa Public Information Board for each fiscal year since the Board’s inception.
2. Annual reporting data showing, for each year since the Board’s inception, the total number of complaints received, total number of complaints opened, and total number of complaints dismissed.
3. 2025 case data exported directly from the Iowa Public Information Board’s contracted Salesforce case-management system showing complaint receipt dates.
4. Records showing the date of issuance of Iowa Public Information Board complaint case numbers for 2025.
5. Copies of the electronic mail and the several hundred IPIB complaints that I filed during 1Q 2024 that evidence indicates your board disregarded a few months after attempting to criminalize my service-connected mental health disabilities.
6. A copy of the electronic mail sent by former Iowa Public Information Board Executive Director Erika Eckley where she communicated that the City of Marshalltown, IA’s fee was consistent with Iowa Code § 22.3 (months after she criminalized my service-connected mental health disabilities).
Conclusion
I will be including the Iowa Public Information Board in my January 2026 civil suit regarding the City of Marshalltown, IA’s historical use of over $400,000 in fees for public records access that evidence now reveals were inconsistent with Iowa Code § 22.3. I enjoyed your previous email, Mr. Lee; it seemed to manifest evidence of a very desperate attempt to regain footing on what evidence indicates is a crumbling tax-funded foundation.
The Form of One Who Stands in the Darkness of the Persian Gulf
There is nothing easy about the United States Navy 5TH FLEET Area of Responsibility (AOR); it is a difficult environment that is not intended to be navigated by the comfortable or the faint of heart.
In the history of mankind, warfare among the honorable has been an instrument of last resort when the safety and sovereignty of our families’ freedoms and liberties are threatened by a third-party aggressor. At the same time, they seek for their families to profit from the termination of our existence.
On shore, some within the uninitiated and those who have never stood a watch in the defense of their freedom provide evidence supporting a predilection for casting words supported by zero evidence. False rhetoric that evidence indicates attempts to cast the historical conduct of the honorable in a false light as a form of disrespectful, vexatious threat or hostility (see Iowa Court Rules 32:8.4(c)).
Public servants who find the intensity of veterans to be difficult and disrespectful without any supporting evidence only provide evidence of how undesirable they would find the battlefield that trained, shaped, and conditioned them.
The Form of the Devil’s Advocate
An educated and licensed professional who deploys rhetoric to persuade, distort, or control a jury’s thoughts, perceptions, and understanding of reality during a judicial proceeding regarding a client’s historical conduct as it relates to our laws.
At the same time, historical testimony and evidence prove that Truth stands on its own.
“Gaslighting.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/gaslighting
“Gaslighting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaslighting
The Most Lawfully Difficult Man in the State of Iowa
If he sent you a public records request,
you’d thank him for a free copy of his first book.
When he talks to local police,
they ask if they’re being detained.
When the State of Iowa falsely accused him of crimes,
he walked into a public meeting and asked to be handcuffed, because he doesn’t like to be teased.
Governor Kim Reynolds once lowered the flag to half-mast.
He raised it because it was blocking his view.
He once sent the State of Iowa Chief Information Officer a cybersecurity bulletin,
just to see if they ignore those too.
He once infiltrated Area 51,
to monitor the treatment of illegal aliens.
He once tore a chapter out of the Iowa Code,
because he needed kindling to start a fire.
The State of Iowa talks about his pajamas,
because they only made it to third base.
Before the Iowa Supreme Court publishes its opinions,
they ask him for his.
He sleeps in a twin-size bed,
because he can’t afford queen-size problems.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety surveils his disabilities,
to ensure Iowa attorneys have a proper handicap while facing him in court.
Before the police read him his rights,
they admit they are wrong.
ICE once broke into his home at 6 a.m.,
just to make sure his morning drink was cold.
He then told them he doesn’t get up until 9 and to come back.
He was once levied by the State of Iowa for over $4,000.
He then levied the State of Iowa for $150. They gave it to him.
He once crossed the State of Iowa in court,
because he didn’t feel like doing it on a bike.
A lawyer once tried to give him her phone number at a Des Moines, IA, nightclub;
he requested proper service instead.
When the State of Iowa later offered him $2 million to settle,
he told them to go to hell, then he brought her breakfast in bed.
When he takes the stand,
it is never for one night.
The Marshalltown, IA, Police Department once searched his home,
trying to find records their IT department failed to back up.
When the Newton, IA, Police Department sees him walking down the road, they slow down.
Then they look in their rearview mirror to see if he turned around to pursue them.
He was once accused of discrimination by the leaders of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission,
because he provided evidence indicating they were DEI hires.
Jasper County, IA, once blocked him on Facebook,
because he wouldn’t stop poking around.
The State of Iowa Attorney General’s Office once subpoenaed him,
because they knew it was the only way to get his help on a case.
His personality is so intoxicating,
Governor Reynolds refuses to read his emails before driving.
He is the most lawfully difficult man in the State of Iowa.
The Cipher Hunter: “I don’t always tolerate bullshit, but when I do, I prefer the State of Iowa. Stay constitutional, my friends.”
Respectfully,
Michael J. Merritt
