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Area gains a presence on state boards, commissions | News, Sports, Jobs

Three local people step forward to serve Feb 6, 2021 As anyone with a passing knowledge of civics knows, Iowa has three branches of government, each with different roles. The legislature writes the laws, the governor ensures that the laws are carried out and the courts decide if the laws are legal and constitutional. The executive branch, led by the governor as the chief executive of the state, includes lots of boards and commissions that provide both insight and oversight. These panels do everything from guiding the care of state parks to determining who should be licensed to practice dentistry. The Fort Dodge region now has a voice on some of those panels as a result of three appointments recently made by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Kersten named to Iowa Board of Corrections | News, Sports, Jobs

bshea@messengernews.net Fort Dodge resident Jim Kersten has been named to the panel that provides oversight and input on the operations of Iowa’s prison system. He has been appointed to the Iowa Board of Corrections by Gov. Kim Reynolds. His appointment requires confirmation by the state Senate. He will serve a four-year term, beginning May 1. According to Kersten, the board’s mission is to give the Department of Corrections an outside perspective on the prison system. “We provide them with some insight they might not have on their own,” he said. Kersten, who is the vice president of external affairs and government relations, at Iowa Central Community College, already has experience working with the Department of Corrections.

Man convicted in brutal 1994 Marshall County murder granted work release

Man convicted in brutal 1994 Marshall County murder granted work release     MARSHALL COUNTY, Iowa (KCCI) One of the men convicted in the brutal 1994 killing of Marshall County mother Rebecca Hauser has been granted work release, according to the Iowa Department of Corrections. Agency spokesperson Cord Overton confirmed that on Wednesday, Jayson Speaks, 41, was transferred from the North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City to the Nelson Center in Cedar Rapids for work release. Speaks was one of four 15-year-olds from Missouri charged with first-degree murder in the killing. All three were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but a Supreme Court ruling meant they were resentenced to life with the possibility for parole in 2016.

Speaks begins work release | News, Sports, Jobs

Jayson Speaks, a convicted murderer of Rebecca Hauser, began work release on Wednesday. Speaks was transferred from the North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City – where he was held for 26 years and proven to be eligible for minimum security – to the Nelson Center in Cedar Rapids. During his first two weeks at the Nelson Center, he will be quarantined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, Speaks will begin searching for a job. His parole officer was not available for comment. Speaks and twin brothers Burt and Derek Smith were all 15 years old when they shot and stabbed Hauser to death on a county road one mile east of Liscomb on Oct. 4, 1994.

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