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Iowa prisons to overhaul drug testing after false-positive cases

Iowa’s Department of Corrections will replace unreliable rapid drug tests and raise its evidence standard for major violations after a settlement with three inmates who were wrongly punished over ...
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Iowa prisons to change drug testing, discipline policies after settlement reached

Iowa prisons will change how they test inmates for drugs and discipline them after a settlement was reached Tuesday with ...
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Iowa volunteers begin water testing as advocates push for state funding

DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Iowa volunteers concerned with the state’s water quality are beginning a new season of independent testing for nitrates in bodies of water surrounding where ...
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Iowa schools have 5 years to test for radon. 3 years in, fewer than half have done so

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect the Iowa Department of Education's response, provided after the article was initially published on Oct. 1, 2025. When a pulmonologist told Gail ...
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Iowa schools making slow progress testing for radon

Iowa has some of the highest radon levels in the nation. By July of 2027, every public school building in Iowa must have tested for naturally occurring, cancer-causing radon gas. They're also required ...