Articles Tagged: Iowa Department of Public Safety

Recurring campaign donations without the donor’s active consent would be illegal, as would any hand-held use of a mobile device while driving. And pointing a laser at an aircraft would become a crime.

Federal highway safety officials told New Jersey to stop posting funny messages; Iowa DOT officials say they have not yet heard from the federal government about its program

As of Monday, 315 people have died in traffic wrecks on the state’s roads — surpassing the five-year average of 300 traffic deaths by this same date each year, despite efforts to crack down on distracted driving and excessive speeding.

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said his office and law enforcement agencies are working together to ensure Iowans’ votes will be safe and counted accurately

Records show the FBI asked state intelligence officials in Iowa for help with Fog as it investigated potential participants in the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Gov. Kim Reynolds established the bureau in 2020, but state lawmakers have not funded it; the funding will provide resources to school districts for gun violence safety and prevention measures

The former sheriff’s deputy deputy allegedly asked to see a woman’s breasts during a traffic stop and implied he wouldn’t give her a ticket if she agreed

Requests for critical stress management debriefings tripled in 2021, Director Stephan Bayens said Wednesday.

The men were four of 35 Iowans honored for courageous responses during incidents in 2020 and 2021. The list includes 22 civilians and 13 first responders.

While some lawmakers have resisted the prohibition on the grounds it’s a personal freedom issue, Stephan Bayens, commissioner of the Iowa Department of Public Safety, said public safety benefits trump the individual rights concern.

Iowa Public Safety Commissioner Stephan Bayens says: “We just can’t continue to expect our folks to just bury the hurt and the trauma and the stress that they see every day and just go about their day and be good moms and dads or husbands or daughters or whatever it is. ”

Two Jones County deputies and three Anamosa police officers are now on paid administrative leave.

State officials reported last month that law officers had written about 1,500 citations for drivers exceeding 100 mph on Iowa highways since the pandemic began influencing driving behaviors.