Vander Zyl v. Iowa Professional Teaching Practices Commission

LARSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Iowa Professional Teaching Practices Commission (commission) from a judicial review decision holding that the record of a private teacher termination hearing under Iowa Code section 279.16 (1983) retained its confidentiality and was therefore inadmissible in subsequent disciplinary proceedings under Iowa Code chapter 272A (1983). We affirm.

In September 1983, Eldon Vander Zyl, a teacher in the Ames Community School District, pled guilty to a charge of indecent exposure, Iowa Code § 709.9 (1983), in an incident involving a juvenile girl. The…