The Marion Police Department and Hiawatha Police Department together will be spending more than $1 million over the next few years on a more efficient records management system.
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The Marion Police Department and Hiawatha Police Department together will be spending more than $1 million over the next few years on a more efficient records management system.
The trial for Alexander Jackson, accused of fatally shooting his parents and sister last June, will not go in April. It will be bumped out, possibly past the one year anniversary of the fatal shootings. His lawyers also plan to ask for a change of venue.
The family of a correctional officer who was killed by two inmates at Anamosa State Penitentiary last year, helped introduce two bills in the Iowa Legislature that would give correctional workers more rights and provide for their families in the event of their death.
A Cedar Rapids man, who beat a man with a vacuum attachment, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and was ordered to pay $1,125 in victim restitution.
A Coralville man pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and unintentionally causing the death of Dawn Stout, 40, of Cedar Rapids, April 1, 2020. He passed another car in a construction area near Palo and crash head-on into a car driven by Stout. Stout died at the scene.
The pandemic contributed to the time it took to dispose of cases, but the state court administrator said the need for more judges continues to be a larger factor. Based on national and judges’ workloads, Iowa should have an additional 24 district court judges. As a result, the percentage of cases pending in Iowa courts after 12 months exceeds national standards for felonies, dissolution, paternity and custody cases, probate and civil cases.
An Iowa City man faces child endangerment charges after police allege he left a loaded gun unattended, allowing one child to shoot another child, causing serious injury.
Linn County Juvenile Detention Center has started work with a therapist from Tanager Place to provide mental health services to incarcerated juveniles.
Rachel Zimmermann Smith announces her campaign to be the next Johnson County attorney. Her goal is to make the justice system work for everyone.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against Gov. Kim Reynolds by a group of six Des Moines-area bars that challenged her brief shutdown of their businesses in August and September 2020 when COVID-19 was rapidly spreading.
The Gazette spoke with 39 law enforcement agencies in Eastern Iowa. Twelve agencies had at least one bilingual officer. Of those 12, all but one spoke Spanish. The state doesn’t offer incentives for officers who speak more than one language.
Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks gives the first-year review of the marijuana diversion program. Of 114 participants, 50 didn’t complete it, 36 are still working on it and 28 successfully completed the program and had their arrests expunged.
A Davenport woman has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Illinois girl. The woman is accused of helping the shooter, Marshawn Jackson, flee to a Davenport motel after the shooting last July.
According to an internal audit made public this week, holes throughout the University of Iowa public safety system – including deficiencies with its crime log, timely warnings, staffing, training, and record-keeping – have put the institution at risk of non-compliance with the federal Clery Act.
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