Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — House Republicans have announced a new proposal for state oversight of Iowa’s privatized Medicaid program that they say emphasizes transparency. The plan released Thursday would require three private companies to provide information for quarterly and annual reports to lawmakers that would show progress under the new system. Data would also be posted online. Medicaid provides health care to poor and disabled residents in Iowa. It was switched to private management on April 1st.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A fire official says 22 people have been displaced after a fire at a triplex in Dubuque. Assistant Fire Marshal Mike McMahon said that firefighters were dispatched to the triplex Wednesday night. The Telegraph Herald reports that 22 people, including 16 children, as well as two dogs evacuated safely. McMahon said that it seems there was an electrical fire in the attic.

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — City crews in Muscatine are spending days remounting dozens of headstones that were toppled at a cemetery. The Muscatine Journal reports workers this week are fixing up to 30 headstones that were pushed off their pedestals at Greenwood Cemetery last weekend. Muscatine police are investigating the vandalism.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Allegations of mistreatment against women preceded the resignation of a newly hired Kalamazoo County administrator from Iowa. The Kalamazoo Gazette says Terrence Neuzil vigorously denies the allegations. Neuzil’s resignation was accepted Tuesday. He had moved to Kalamazoo from Iowa’s Johnson County, where he was one of five elected supervisors.

Governor Terry Branstad has approved the creation of an anti-human trafficking office within the Iowa Department of Public Safety. “This office will provide a main focus point of contact for human trafficking issues in the state,” Branstad says, “as well as the leadership necessary to help leverage other resources necessary to better address this heinous crime.” Foster care advocate Ruth Buckels of Story City says some Iowa law enforcement officials still don’t believe trafficking is a problem in their community.

“It is in small towns. It’s on the road. It’s in gas stations. It’s at hotels. It’s at motels. It’s at strip malls. It’s at the movie theater,” Buckels says. “It’s any place that youth are.” Buckels says she knows about 140 former human trafficking victims in Iowa. Six of them are now her adopted children. Legislators unanimously passed a bill that creates the new state government office to address human trafficking concerns. It’s expected to collect data about forced labor and sexual enslavement to determine the extent of the human trafficking problem in Iowa.

(Radio Iowa)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — House Republicans have announced a new proposal for state oversight of Iowa’s privatized Medicaid program that they say emphasizes transparency. The plan released Thursday would require three private companies to provide information for quarterly and annual reports to lawmakers that would show progress under the new system. Data would also be posted online.

A spokesman for the Democratic-controlled Senate, which has its own plan, says lawmakers are reviewing the Republican proposal. Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, a Council Bluffs Democrat, said at a press conference held before the release of the GOP plan that his chamber wants to work with Republicans to reach consensus on the issue. Medicaid provides health care to poor and disabled residents in Iowa. It was switched to private management on April 1.