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DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced she has added more violations of Iowa’s consumer protection laws to her lawsuit against TikTok. The state asserts the social media giant uses dangerous, addictive features to cause children to become hooked on the app and hides the truth about the risk of users’...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird praised the sentencing of a Palo Alto man found guilty of sex abuse against two minor children.   On April 3, 2026, Palo Alto County District Court Judge Adam Miller sentenced Aaron James Manz to a total of 200 years in prison following his convictions for eight...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced she has filed a lawsuit against Meta and several of its subsidiaries, including Instagram and Facebook, for breaking Iowa’s consumer protection laws. The Attorney General’s Office alleges Instagram represents itself as being safe for Iowa's children and teenagers, yet there is explicit content...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird awarded three Iowans the 2026 Consumer Protection Hero Award today at a press conference.   “Our team at the Attorney General’s Office is always hard at work to stop the scam and protect Iowans,” said Attorney General Bird. “But we can’t do it alone. Today we thank three heroes who have gone above and beyond to save someone from being scammed. They saw...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird celebrated two landmark rulings by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals today, which vacated the preliminary injunction entered against Senate File 496. The court’s decisions reinstate Iowa’s ability to enforce the law, marking a significant victory for parental rights and local control in education.    The 2023 law prohibits sexually explicit books and materials...

DES MOINES—In a report issued today, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office has concluded that the February 19, 2026, fatal shooting of Hunter Thomas Munoz by two Des Moines Police Officers was legally justified.  The Attorney General’s conclusion was based on a review and investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today that Robert Davis of Council Bluffs has been convicted of second-degree murder for the killing of Barbara Lenz. Barbara disappeared from Harrison County in 1989. Davis was arrested on March 10, 2025, and was the first arrest made in a case that the Iowa Cold Case Unit helped investigate.   Barbara Lenz was last seen on Saturday,...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today she has filed a lawsuit against Change Healthcare for violations of Iowa’s Consumer Fraud Act and Personal Information Security Breach Protection Act, stemming from a large-scale data breach that affected nearly 2.2 million Iowans.  The breach began on February 11, 2024, and was...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird joined a 25-state coalition in a brief before the United States Supreme Court defending Arizona’s right to ensure election integrity in their election process.  The coalition maintains that Arizona should be able to ensure that its voters are citizens as part of the registration process....

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird is leading 24 states in a brief asking the United States Supreme Court to rule that Massachusetts’s radical pork ban is unconstitutional.  Massachusetts’s “Question 3” pork ban prevents other states from selling pork in or transporting through Massachusetts if farmers do not comply with Massachusetts’s luxury hog-housing requirements. That means that even if Iowa-produced pork meets all Iowa and federal safety and...