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DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that Katie’s Law and Victims Protection--key bills in her 2026 legislative priorities--passed out of subcommittee today in the Iowa Senate.   Katie’s Law has been enacted in some form in over 30 states and federally. The bill requires DNA collection from individuals arrested for felony or aggravated misdemeanor offenses. This bill creates a safe...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today at a press conference a new community initiative in collaboration with the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Ring (an Amazon company) to support domestic violence survivors with technology and safety tools. The Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence has received 1,000 Ring X Line Devices for domestic violence survivors that include a lifetime subscription. Additionally, Ring will provide a $25,000 monetary donation to...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird is launching a new funding opportunity to help communities across the state respond to the opioid crisis. The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has secured over $365 million for Iowa through settlements with opioid manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, and other related parties to help combat opioid misuse and addiction. The settlement money will help Iowa communities and families face this devastating crisis and reduce the harm it causes. Of the $365 million, the State’s...

DES MOINES—Today, Attorney General Brenna Bird announced she has concluded a lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s rewrite of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, a mandate that threatened school accommodations for students.   The mandate illegally attempted to include “gender dysphoria” under Section 504, a law that protects school accommodations for kids with disabilities such as ADHD or diabetes. When...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today she has filed a lawsuit against 18 Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and insulin manufacturers asserting they have manipulated and inflated insulin prices to profit at the expense of Iowans using life-sustaining insulin.   “Artificially increasing prices to profit off of people who could die without your product is terrible,” said Attorney General Bird. “Diabetics in Iowa deserve a free and fair marketplace, not a rigged market...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today she is co-leading with Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti a coalition of 26 states and territories in support of President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.   On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order to stop automatic birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants and birth tourists. The states highlight significant constitutional and policy concerns as to why President Trump’s...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that she has filed three lawsuits against contractors in Boone, Woodbury, and Polk counties for conducting illegal excavations, some of which resulted in damage to underground utilities. She is also seeking contempt of court for violation of a prior consent decree against a contractor in Marion County.   Under Iowa’s One Call...

DES MOINES—The Judicial Safety bill proposed by Attorney General Brenna Bird unanimously passed out of subcommittee in the Iowa House of Representatives yesterday.  The Judicial Safety bill makes it a “C” felony — up to 10 years in prison — to make threats against judicial officers and their immediate family members. The bill creates a serious misdemeanor charge for doxxing judicial officers or their immediate family. It...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird secured another important victory in her ongoing lawsuit against TikTok for lying to parents and children about the frequency and severity of inappropriate videos that it shows to kids. This win also means that Attorney General Brenna Bird can continue to hold big tech companies accountable when they break Iowa law or hurt children.  On Friday, January 23rd, the...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced an arrest for the murder of Christian Balke-Thompson who disappeared in 2020. The Iowa Cold Case unit helped investigate the case. Attorney General Bird launched the statewide unit in July 2024.  Christian Balke-Thompson, 26, of Carroll, Iowa, was last seen in the early morning hours of May 2, 2020.  On the...