Omaha Strip Clubs: Iowa texting while driving ban takes effect July 1
The measure approved by lawmakers requires hospital officials to notify police when they release a mental patient wanted by authorities, a measure some supporters said could have saved Thomas’ life.
Lawmakers also reacted to emerging scandals in the state, including one involving the Iowa Association of School Boards, a group being investigated for charges they wasted millions of tax dollars on bloated salaries and trips to exotic places like Bora Bora.
Though it’s funded mainly with tax dollars, the school board group is a private entity, not covered by the state’s Sunshine laws. Lawmakers voted to make the group come under the state’s open meetings and open records law, and issue regular spending reports.
Lawmakers also decided to close a loophole in the state’s indecent exposure law, slamming shut the “artistic and theatrical” exemption in the law, after reports of a strip club in Hamburg using that exemption to allow a minor to dance in the nude.
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