News Releases - 2024 Archive

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced the results of the office’s victim services audit at a press conference in the Attorney General’s Des Moines office. The report specifically underscores not only the problems identified throughout the audit, but the changes made to improve victim services. “As a prosecutor, I...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led a letter calling on shareholders at ExxonMobil to do their duty and protect millions of Americans’ retirement savings, rather than force Biden’s illegal climate change agenda. The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) is illegally forcing ESG regulations onto ExxonMobil that will jeopardize...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird urges Iowans to be on the lookout for scammers and shady contractors targeting victims of this week's storms. For a detailed list of tips to avoid storm chaser scams, read the Iowa Attorney General’s Office press release: https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/attorney-general-bird-warns-iowans-of-storm-chaser-scams-and-price-gouging. “This week's storms destroyed more than just...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today took action to stop vaccine mandates and protect religious freedoms. New York has eliminated religious exemptions for school vaccination requirements and has imposed massive penalties on religious schools that refuse the vaccine. Vaccine mandates infringe upon parents’ First Amendment right to raise their...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led a 20-state lawsuit challenging a new Biden mandate that creates roadblocks for infrastructure projects by forcing social, environmental, and race-based regulations on developers. The mandate eliminates President Trump’s common-sense reforms that streamlined development, to instead force Biden’s radical green agenda. With the...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced the members of the Iowa Attorney General’s Office’s statewide antisemitism task force. The 14-member task force is made up of local leaders in state government, law enforcement, and Iowa’s Jewish community.   “As Attorney General, I have a responsibility to keep Iowans safe,”...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird called on Biden’s EPA to reverse a rule that will devastate Iowa agriculture by banning formaldehyde that has been used at safe levels for years. EPA’s mandate effectively bans formaldehyde by mandating that formaldehyde levels be beneath the background levels naturally found in many...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird sues California to hit the brakes on its green fleet fantasy and stand up for Iowa truckers. The 17-state lawsuit challenges California’s mandate that forces truck fleets, even those based outside of California, to be all-electric by 2042. The lawsuit was announced at a press...

DES MOINES—Today, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced the launch of the Attorney General’s office’s statewide antisemitism task force in a press conference at the Iowa Holocaust Memorial. The task force is made up of 14 local leaders in state government, law enforcement, and Iowa’s Jewish community. “Antisemitic hate has no...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced a $10.25 million settlement with AT&T Mobility, Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile USA., Cellco Partnership, Verizon Wireless, and TracFone Wireless. This settlement closes investigations by 47 attorney general offices into the phone companies’ deceptive advertising practices. “Phone companies have a duty to connect Iowans...