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There are 2 District courts in the state of Iowa. The federal district courts whose jurisdiction is comprised of the Iowa counties Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Audubon county, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista county, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Clinton, Crawford, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Delaware, Des Moines, Dickinson, Dubuque, Emmet, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fremont county, Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Harrison, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Ida, Iowa, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Kossuth county, Lee F, Lee K, Linn, Louisa, Lucas, Lyon, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Mills, Mitchell, Monona, Monroe, Montgomery, Muscatine, O'brien, Osceola, Page, Palo Alto, Plymouth, Pocahontas, Polk, Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Sac, Scott county, Shelby, Sioux, Story, Tama, Taylor, Union, Van Buren, Wapello, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, White, Winnebago, Winneshiek, Woodbury and Worth county, IA, are Iowa Northern District Court and Iowa Southern District Court. Federal district courts are found in all 50 states and DC. These courts are repositories of federal criminal records pertaining federal level crimes such as bank robbery, embezzlement, wire fraud, mail fraud etc.
In Iowa it is recommended that court record search be performed on county by county level. Generally, all counties in the United States may be searched for felony convictions. Some states restrict the level of information and may seal misdemeanor records, and it is not unusual to have felony downgraded to a lesser crime.
Iowa in Court Record Feeds
Examination of cases involving Iowa public meetings and records laws. The Buena Vista County clerk of court agreed to release documents and pay attorney's fees after the Des Moines Register sued to obtain court records.
Iowa district court orders to release records. June 22, 2005. IOWA – After nearly four years battling with the Iowa State University Foundation, Arlen Nichols finally got access to the records for which he has been fighting. The fight started after they were denied access to financial records of the foundation and the ISU Agricultural Foundation for the period from 1990 to 2001. They had also requested "correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, directors minutes, reports and the like," according to court records.
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