News Releases - 2025 Archive - Page 2

DES MOINES-- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced yesterday she is leading an 18-state coalition supporting Florida’s law to enforce immigration law.   Like Iowa, Florida adopted a law that mirrors federal law—if an illegal alien commits a violent crime, is deported, and illegally reenters the country, the alien has committed the...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that a new state law protecting Iowans from losing money to scammers through cryptocurrency ATMs goes into effect today.     “The legislature acted when they saw how frequently cryptocurrency ATMs were being used by scammers to steal from Iowans,” said Attorney General Bird. “Today, cryptocurrency...

The new Iowa law that increases penalties for assaults against law enforcement officers and first responders goes into effect today, July 1, 2025. The law was Attorney General Brenna Bird’s legislative priority this past session.  “Starting today, Iowa’s law works harder to protect our law enforcement heroes who daily put...