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ERIN JORDAN
The Gazette
JARED STRONG
Carroll Times Herald Jul 10, 2021
Without body cameras, Iowa State Patrol is an outlier among Iowa law enforcement.
State Patrol lags behind roughly 100 Iowa law enforcement agencies that already have body cameras, shown to reduce use-of-force incidents and citizen complaints against police.
CONTRIBUTED
An Iowa State Patrol trooper stops a speeder on Interstate 80 in
Johnson County during an August 2015 special traffic
enforcement.
Iowa State Patrol troopers, who stop more than 150,000 motorists a year, provide security at the state Capitol and staff high-profile events, donât wear body cameras.
The deficiency was obvious after an April 8 protest at the Capitol when troopers arrested a Black high school student on allegations she assaulted an officer.
Erin Murphy
Lee Des Moines Bureau
DES MOINES By all accounts, Iowaâs 2020 general election was wildly successful, and that success was driven largely by early voting.
A bill that is rapidly making its way through the Iowa Legislature would constrain, if not outright ban, many of the early voting programs that made the 2020 election in Iowa a record-breaker.
More than 1.7 million Iowans cast a ballot in the 2020 general election, the most in state history. Statewide turnout was 76%, one of the highest rates in the nation. Every county had at least 65% turnout, and 14 surpassed 80%.
Early and absentee voting drove that high turnout: Iowans cast more than 1 million absentee ballots, another state record and nearly 60% of total ballots.