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The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa has called out state legislators and law enforcement, demanding that officials provide better data on possible cases of racial profiling.
“Racial profiling in Iowa still exists,” wrote Marty Ryan, ACLU of Iowa’s legislative director, in a “Statehouse Update” to ACLU supporters. “I wanted to believe that the issue was [...]

A resolution scheduled to be voted on tonight by the Sioux City council opposing same-sex marriage endorses discrimination and should be rejected, the ACLU of Iowa’s Executive Director Ben Stone said today.
“The resolution contains language stating that it is about ‘respect [for] the rule of law and majority opinion,’” Stone said. “Such rhetoric was commonly [...]

The Fox News Channel has followed up on an Iowa Independent story published late last month about the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center.

Since fusion centers around the country have gone largely unexamined by the mainstream media, The Iowa Independent and its sister sites in Minnesota, Colorado, Michigan and New Mexico reported on activity in their [...]

On the third floor of an unnamed building in the shadow of the state Capitol sits the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center, an organization tasked with helping to stop future acts of terrorism.

Over 300 of the 389 people who were detained following a federal immigration raid of Agriprocessors in Postville on Monday are now facing criminal charges. It’s a figure that has civil liberties advocates concerned.

In late 2002, 18-year-old Muhibullah of rural Afghanistan allegedly heard intruders trying to break into his family’s compound in the village of Uruzgan. Having assumed the role of head of household after his father, Haji Yar Mohammed, had lost a leg and eye fighting against the Soviets in the late `70s during a U.S. backed [...]

It seems an almost classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face. Yesterday Rep. Dawn Pettengill jumped directly from the Iowa Democratic Party to the Iowa Republican Party. She cited a desire to represent her district and be more independent.
As Pettengill herself noted in a Des Moines Register article a month ago, [...]