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David Hightower
Social distancing has made everything more difficult, and gathering jurors for criminal trials has been no exception. Upgrades in the large courtroom at the Des Moines County Courthouse will allow those trials to run more smoothly.
County Attorney Lisa Schaefer told the Board of Supervisors about several grant-funded audio/visual updates to the large courtroom at the courthouse.
Schaefer said new TV screens have been installed on either side of the courtroom to show body cam and surveillance videos during trials. And so now everybody gets to see, so whatever s on the main screen will be on those screens as well. Schaefer also touted an updated speaker system. There are 18 speakers that run the gambit of the courtroom from front to back… you can actually hear better in the back than the front when you re listening to a video.
Bob Saar
Des Moines County supervisors Thomas Broeker, chair, Jim Cary and Shane McCampbell met Tuesday to hear the latest COVID numbers and got some good news relative to all of 2020 from DMC public health director Christa Poggemiller. We re rolling out the vaccine, Poggemiller said.
She said as of Sunday 1,162 DMC residents were vaccinated for a DMC total of 1,537; out-of-county health workers and others who qualify are included in the overall total even though they don t live here. We gave more vaccines yesterday, so we anticipate that number will be higher come tomorrow, Poggemiller said, announcing that COVID vaccination numbers are now available online at coronavirus.iowa.gov and are updated Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.