Iowa County to lower fees for photocopies. (In-Brief).(Gannett Company Inc.)(Brief Article)

Polk County, Iowa, settled with The Des Moines Register in August in a lawsuit the Register had filed to fight the fee the county recorder was charging for photocopies. The county also said it would pay the newspaper's $5,000 in legal expenses.

When the Register filed its suit against County Recorder Timothy Brien in June, it accused the office, which processes real estate documents, of making the public pay too much for copies. As part of the county's settlement with the newspaper, Brien said he would lower the photocopying fee from $1.40 to 50 cents per page. The county also agreed to stop mandating that photocopy customers …