Hunter
11/09/23
An attorney who served on the Iowa City Community Police Review Board from July 2021 through January 2022 has been publicly reprimanded for revealing a confidential informant’s identity and putting their life in danger.
Iowa Capital Dispatch reports Iowa City attorney Theresa J. Seeberger, who once served as a judicial magistrate presiding over cases in Cedar County, has been publicly reprimanded by the Iowa Supreme Court’s Attorney Disciplinary Board. She said Wednesday she has now relinquished her Iowa law license.
Seeberger was representing clients in two separate cases. One, a woman charged with meth possession, and her boyfriend, who was charged with selling meth to a confidential informant.
A prosecutor in the man’s case played Seeberger a recording of the alleged drug sales. Three days later, the woman called her boyfriend from jail and said that Seeberger discussed the recording and told the woman the name of the informant, making her swear not to tell anyone.
The phone call was recorded and provided to prosecutors, who filed a complaint against Seeberger.
This wasn’t the first issue regarding the attorney. Seeberger was privately admonished in 2011 for speaking to a group of jurors who had found one of her clients guilty. In 2015, she was privately admonished for sending a Facebook message directly to an individual she knew was represented by legal counsel.