Iowa Fraud Watch
Iowa Attorney General & Consumer Protection Division
Iowa Fraud Watch
Find local law-enforcement contacts, explore Iowa consumer complaint data, and review current emergency and disaster-recovery information.
Trusted local contacts
Stay Connected with Local Law Enforcement
Scams often target specific communities, and local law-enforcement agencies may share timely warnings about fraudulent calls, suspicious activity, impersonation scams, and other issues affecting your area. Select your county or search for a county or city below to find participating agencies and follow their official social-media accounts.
Find Local Help
Select an Iowa county or major city to identify the local law-enforcement agency that generally serves that area. Confirm current non-emergency contact information on the agency's official website before relying on it.
Select a County on the Map
Select a county on the Iowa map to view participating law-enforcement agencies and their official social-media accounts.
County boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files, 1:500,000 scale.
Please note: This resource highlights Iowa law-enforcement agencies with identified official social-media accounts. It is not a complete directory of every agency serving each county. Confirm jurisdiction and current contact information through the agency's official website.
Are You an Iowa Law-Enforcement Agency?
This directory is intended to help Iowans connect with official law-enforcement social-media accounts in their communities. If your Iowa law-enforcement agency maintains an official social-media account that is not currently listed, please contact the Iowa Attorney General's Office to request that it be considered for inclusion.
Listing are provided as a public resource. Inclusion does not constitute an endorsement of any social-media platform or independently verify every post published by a participating agency.
Search Counties & Cities
Select a county on the Iowa map to view participating law-enforcement agencies and their official social-media accounts.
Consumer complaint data
What Iowans Are Reporting
Explore complaint totals, grouped categories, monthly patterns and recent changes without leaving this compact view. Select the latest reporting month you want included.
Complaint Overview
Year-to-date figures through the selected reporting month.
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Total through the selected month.
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Monthly complaint total.
Average per reported month
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Calculated from published months through the selection.
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Based on year-to-date grouped totals.
Complaints by Grouped Category
Ranked year-to-date totals through the selected month. Each row includes its exact count and share of complaints.
Monthly Complaint Trends
Compare overall complaint volume or follow one grouped category through the selected month.
What Changed?
Compares the selected month with the immediately preceding month.
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Monthly change will appear when consecutive months contain data.
Largest increase
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Uses categories with at least 10 complaints in either comparison month.
Largest decrease
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Uses categories with at least 10 complaints in either comparison month.
Disaster Proclamations and Consumer Information
Emergency Status
Check the current status of Iowa disaster declarations and review consumer-protection information before hiring a contractor or paying for disaster-recovery work.
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Declaration details
Counties Currently Listed
2026 proclamation history
Year to Date
Review proclamations issued earlier this year that may still affect disaster-related services or available relief.
A past proclamation may still matter if you obtained eligible disaster-related services while the applicable declaration or recovery period was in effect. Review the affected locations, dates and type of proclamation, and keep contracts, invoices and proof of payment.
This list includes all Iowa proclamations issued in 2026 through the date shown below. Fuel and animal-health proclamations are identified separately because they do not necessarily activate individual disaster assistance or the same consumer protections as a county disaster proclamation.
Confirm current declarations, deadlines and available assistance through official state resources.
Emergency pricing
Concerned About Possible Price Gouging?
During certain declared emergencies, Iowa law may restrict excessive prices for essential goods and services needed by people affected by the emergency. Coverage may depend on where and when the service was rendered, whether the customer was impacted by the disaster, and whether the service falls within Iowa's price-gouging rules. A proclamation's expiration does not necessarily end every applicable recovery period, and not every price increase violates the law.
Find the right destination
Where to Report a Problem
Different agencies handle different parts of disaster-recovery and contractor-related complaints.
Consumer Protection Division
Report deceptive contractors, unfinished work, false promises, deductible-rebate offers or other potentially unfair business practices.
File a Consumer ComplaintIowa Insurance Division
Report insurance-claim concerns, post-loss assignment issues or suspected unlicensed public-adjusting activity.
Contact the Insurance Division (opens in a new window)Iowa Division of Labor
Check whether a contractor is registered or find contractor-registration information.
View Contractor Information (opens in a new window)Local Law Enforcement
Report suspected theft, forgery, threats or other criminal activity. Call 911 if there is an immediate threat to life or safety.
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