The Coralville City Council will reconsider its use of automatic license plate reader cameras after the Iowa Attorney General’s Office flagged the city’s policy that limits the use of the cameras for immigration enforcement.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says county officials are legally required to set sheriff salaries using a specific comparison framework established under the state’s 2021 “Back the Blue” law, clarifying that pay must align with certain municipal and state law enforcement leadership roles.
It’s part of a fund created after cuts to Medicaid in One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has joined 20 other Republican attorneys general in urging a federal appeals court to lift restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, pushing back against a judge’s ruling that barred federal agents in Minneapolis from arresting peaceful protesters, or using nonlethal munitions and crowd control tools against them.
At a school tour in Des Moines, Reynolds also announced her legislative proposal to align all per-pupil state funding for public schools to charter schools.
Iowa corn growers are expressing frustration toward congressional lawmakers after attempts to pass legislation allowing year-round sales 15 percent corn ethanol blend gasoline, or E15, were omitted from a House funding bill advanced Thursday as farmers in the state grapple with losses in the farm economy.
The Republican Attorneys General Association donated $1 million to Bird’s re-election campaign on New Year’s Eve.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says bill proposed Wednesday could help solve cold cases, but legal justice advocates have privacy concerns
A Johnson County District Court judge has denied the state’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges a new law requiring three Iowa counties to change how their supervisors are elected is unconstitutional.
It’s among the proposals from the Iowa Attorney General’s Office ahead of the Iowa legislative session that starts later this month.
The Iowa Supreme Court, in a split decision, has ordered a new trial for a West Des Moines doctor, convicted of sexually abusing a child under the age of 10, over the use of one-way video testimony.
Iowa Methodist Medical Center-UnityPoint, in Des Moines, will receive the Medicare funding to support 2.92 additional positions
Iowa’s congressional delegation has introduced resolutions in the U.S. House and Senate honoring two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend terrorist attack in Syria.
Members of Iowa’s congressional delegation will travel to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday alongside President Donald Trump to attend the dignified transfer of the two Iowa National Guard soldiers who were killed in an attack in Syria.
An Iowa-led coalition is urging a federal court to halt an IRS rule requiring nonprofits to submit donor lists, citing privacy risks and past data breaches. Plus: USDA unveils updates to crop insurance, Iowans are asked to weigh in on lake restoration plans and Iowa’s public pension system’s funded ratio topped 92 percent.
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