DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa House has unanimously passed a resolution that seeks to amend the state’s constitution to add rules for how authorities can search and seize electronic communications and data. The chamber voted 96-0 Thursday for the resolution, which heads to the Senate. The Legislature would need to approve the proposal next year, and it then would go before voters in 2018.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines Water Works will stop dumping excess nitrate it filters from drinking water into the Raccoon River and will begin paying the city’s sanitary sewer system to treat the chemical discharge. The Register reports that under the new plan, Water Works’ removal facility will route its discharge of brine, a salty byproduct of water purification treatment, to the city’s sanitary sewer system for additional treatment.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — An attorney for a Dubuque man accused of sexually assaulting and beating to death a church secretary says his client is unable to understand the charges against him due to a mental disorder. The Telegraph Herald reports that a public defender for 20-year-old Helmon Betwell filed a motion Tuesday requesting a hearing to determine Betwell’s competency to stand trial.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Corrections Department says an inmate who’d been listed as escaped from a work release facility is back in custody. Department spokesman Fred Scaletta said Thursday that Jacob Petty was caught by Sioux City police and is being held in Woodbury County Jail.