Articles Tagged: Iowa Attorney General

Also, Iowa auditor’s office earns top rating in external review

“Senator Claire Celsi, our beloved wife, sister, mom, and grandma, has entered hospice care. Our family asks that you please respect our privacy during this difficult time,” Celsi’s family said in a statement issued through the Iowa Senate Democrats’ caucus spokesman.

The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so “degraded and contaminated” that traditional DNA testing couldn’t help investigators identify the infant or his mother. Advanced testing developed by a Texas lab in 2018 helped investigators identify the mother, who was arrested last week.

Also, State Treasurer Roby Smith says state’s Pooled Money Fund has surpassed $1 billion in total earnings since he took office.

State and tribal law enforcement officers will be able to cross jurisdictional boundaries while pursuing fleeing suspects under a new legal agreement between the Iowa Attorney General’s Office and the Meskwaki Nation.

Also, Iowa judge fines Pennsylvania insurer $481,500 for misleading seniors.

Also in the notebook, a union group endorses Democratic Iowa attorney general candidate Nate Willems

Also in today’s Capitol Notebook, Iowa AG Brenna Bird joins a bipartisan coalition urging artificial intelligence firms to protect children from harmful chatbots.

Also in the notebook, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird’s office is supporting legal coalitions addressing Instagram users’ privacy and safety, and a ‘designer Xanax’

An environmental group that advocates for clean water in northeast Iowa has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by the state against a Postville meatpacking over its repeated wastewater pollution violations.

The fatal shooting of a Linn County man by law enforcement officers during a traffic stop near Cascade in Dubuque County last month was justified, according to a report issued Friday by the Iowa Attorney General’s Office.

Speaking at a campaign fundraiser, the Republican AG said her office will ‘get all the way to the bottom’ after an apparently undercover video shows a University of Iowa worker describing how staff is circumventing a new state law that bans DEI

Also, Attorney General urges Iowans to watch out for ticket scams ahead of Iowa State Fair

Also in the notebook, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird objects to a settlement in a lawsuit against the retail brokerage Charles Schwab

The judge’s order on Iowa’s new pharmacy benefit managers regulations, which partially halts its implementation, applies only to plaintiff businesses, their workers and health care agents.