Banos v. Shepard

McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

In this appeal, the defendant, commissioner of the Iowa department of public safety, questions whether the trial court *365had subject matter jurisdiction to entertain the petition of plaintiff James Banos. Ba-nos wrote to the department and requested removal from his criminal history files of two terms referring to him which he contested as inaccurate. The department removed one of those terms. Banos then petitioned the court in equity under Iowa Code chapter 692 (1985) to have the remaining term removed from his files. Over the defendant’s objection that Iowa Code…