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By Jason Taylor Mar 5, 2021 DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Legislative Black Caucus wants Governor Kim Reynolds to veto Back the Blue bills. The five-member caucus says the bills should not pass because they don't include a ban on racial profiling or any requirement for bias training. Governor Reynolds asked for a racial profiling ban in her Condition of the State speech, but that proposal was not included in any of the bills. The Black Caucus says the Republican controlled legislature is moving backwards after it passed a police reform package last June. The caucus was fronted in a Thursday ne...

Pixabay Republican lawmakers did not advance a proposal to ban racial profiling by law enforcement ahead of a key legislative deadline. Republican lawmakers did not advance Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal to ban racial profiling by law enforcement ahead of a key legislative deadline Thursday, but they did advance bills that give more protections to police. Reynolds’ “Back the Blue Act” combined the anti-racial profiling legislation with provisions including punishing cities that reduce police funding, raising penalties for protest-related crimes, and creating a new crime of “bias-motiva...

By Jason Taylor Mar 5, 2021 DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Legislative Black Caucus wants Governor Kim Reynolds to veto Back the Blue bills. The five-member caucus says the bills should not pass because they don't include a ban on racial profiling or any requirement for bias training. Governor Reynolds asked for a racial profiling ban in her Condition of the State speech, but that proposal was not included in any of the bills. The Black Caucus says the Republican controlled legislature is moving backwards after it passed a police reform package last June. The caucus was fronted in a Thursday ne...

An Iowa measure to ban public schools from using a project that teaches about slavery won subcommittee approval Tuesday, making it eligible for consideration by the state's House Education Committee. The bill, House File 222, sponsored by Rep. Skyler Wheeler, R-Orange City, would ban schools, colleges and regents institutions from incorporating the 1619 Project or "any similarly developed curriculum" in U.S history classes and would take away state aid from institutions that use it. The 1619 Project, published in 2019, aims to reframe the way slavery and the contributions of Black Americ...

The Iowa Legislative Black Caucus is calling on Gov. Kim Reynolds to veto Back the Blue bills.