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Johnson County Sheriff Brad Kunkel says the electronic monitoring program for pretrial defendants and inmates sentenced to jail time has reduced jail numbers and the program is paying for itself. The inmates sentenced to jail but allowed to be out of custody with a GPS monitor are charged for the monitoring system. The pretrial defendants aren’t charged for the service.
Tara McGovern, charged after a protest at the University of Iowa, says free speech and the right to assemble are as much at issue as LGBTQ rights.
Lang 2/2/24 The Johnson County Democrats have declined to censure county attorney Rachel Zimmerman Smith for prosecuting seven protestors arrested at a
The Johnson County Attorney's Office charged seven transgender or nonbinary protesters for their role in an October protest, drawing blowback from local officials.
Anthony Sivanthaphanith pled guilty to second-degree theft, a lesser charge than he was originally facing. He will be on probation for three years.