(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says lawyers in her office as well as private attorneys are conducting the investigation to determine if staff at Iowa’s three public universities violated the state law that forbids diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. “Iowa law tasks my office with the responsibility of making sure that when there’s a complaint, and there recently was one filed by the governor, related to D.E.I. practices at our state universities that we investigate that,” Bird said, “so that investigation is still ongoing.” Bird made her comments to reporters yesterday (Thursday).

Undercover videos released online this summer appeared to show University of Iowa and Iowa State University employees talking about how they were getting around the ban on D-E-I programming on the campuses. A month ago at a campaign fundraiser, Bird promised to pull the curtain back and release a public report once the investigation is done.