The Polk County Intensive Supervision Drug Court program has been around since the late 1990s. It helps people who once ...

A new plan to provide much needed space for Polk County's overcrowded courts was unveiled Monday.The plan was developed after voters rejected a $130 million proposal to build a new courts annex ...

Function now meets beauty at the restored Historic Polk County Courthouse in Des Moines ... "I am so very pleased that this restored jewel of the Iowa court system — along with its two younger ...

A Polk County attorney is frustrated about a recent Iowa Supreme Court decision to grant a new trial to a man previously convicted of kidnapping and sexual abuse. Michael Dunbar of Saylor Township ...

A Polk County judge has temporarily blocked Iowa's "fetal heartbeat" law ... standard when evaluating whether the new law should be blocked. "This court does not get to declare that our Supreme ...

Polk County District Judge Joseph Seidlin placed an injunction on the new abortion law that was signed last Friday. In his ruling, Seidlin wrote that the courts should follow the current precedent set ...

The state’s largest county has a new county ... unpaid court fines and fees. Kimberly Graham spoke at a forum for county attorney candidates held at Drake University on May 24, 2022. Polk ...

It asserts a First Amendment right to access to new civil petitions filed in Iowa ... The lawsuit names the Iowa state court administrator, Robert Gast, and Polk County District Court clerk Anne ...