News Releases - 2025 Archive - Page 5

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced she has signed agreements with thirteen pork processors that allows them to continue long-standing pig-ownership agreements with Iowa farmers that have been in place for up to 20 years.   In 1975, the state of Iowa passed a law that banned pork processors from...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird is cautioning Iowans to be wary of scammers posing as potential employers. In one of these scams, you may receive a job offer via text or email describing a job that allows you to work from home with little effort.   However, these unsolicited offers are...

DES MOINES—In a report issued today, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office has concluded that the August 15, 2025, fatal shooting of Feglys Antonio Campos Arriba by a Denison Police officer was legally justified.  The Attorney General’s conclusion was based on a review and investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal...

DES MOINES –-Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today she joined a coalition of 25 states filing an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court, urging it to review the constitutionality of Massachusetts’ firearm licensing requirements for nonresidents.    “Massachusetts’s law drowns the rights of law-abiding citizens in red tape and...

DES MOINES—In a report issued today, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office has concluded that the August 5, 2025, fatal shooting of David Leonard Maupin by a deputy from the Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office was legally justified.  The Attorney General’s conclusion was based on a review and investigation by the...

DES MOINES—Today, Attorney General Brenna Bird announced she has led an amicus brief supporting the right of victims and families of the heinous October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks to sue American individuals and organizations accused of providing material support to Hamas.   On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out a massive terror attack...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Bird today announced victory in her lawsuit to defend ethanol and pull the plug on Biden’s electric-vehicle handout.   In the Biden administration’s continual war on gas vehicles, it created a rule that overstated the efficiency of electric cars by more than six times. That illegal boost...

DES MOINES—Today, on behalf of the state of Iowa, Attorney General Brenna Bird signed a historic memorandum of understanding with Meskwaki Nation, Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. Also signing the MOU were Tribal Chairman Vern Jefferson and Department of Public Safety Commissioner Stephan Bayens.   This “fresh...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that her office secured a 2nd degree murder conviction against James Bachmurski, Sr., in the death of 15-year-old Jade Colvin.   On March 30, 2017, Jade went missing from a farm in rural Decorah. She had just returned from living in Arizona and was...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that her office secured a conviction against David Heady on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, for 13 counts of child endangerment.   Heady, a former Keokuk County Sheriff’s deputy, was a passenger in a truck pulling a hayrack ride filled with 30 children in October...