LA PORTE CITY, Iowa (AP) — Scores of volunteers are expected to resume the search Wednesday for a missing 16-year-old boy in eastern Iowa. Police say Jake Wilson, of La Porte City, was last seen at 9 p.m. Saturday going for a walk. Police Chief Chris Brecher says a search began less than an hour later, when he didn’t return home. His mother has said Jake has autism with a mild intellectual disorder and functions at the level of a 9-year-old.

Jake Wilson

Officials say nearly 500 people signed up at the La Porte City fire station for a line search of a neighborhood Tuesday. The Black Hawk County city has about 2,300 residents.
The total search area covers about 255 square miles and is being pored over with dogs, people using horses or all-terrain vehicles and by people wading through a creek.

MAYNARD, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have charged a 49-year-old man suspected of teaching while drunk at a high school in northeast Iowa. Court records say Daniel Reisner, of Sumner, is charged with public intoxication. His next court hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. An officer sent Monday to the West Central Community School District school in Maynard says Reisner smelled of alcohol, had bloodshot and watery eyes and failed field sobriety tests.

Court records also say Reisner’s breath test at the Fayette County Jail showed his blood alcohol level was over the legal limit to drive. The district superintendent says Reisner has been suspended.

A Council Bluffs man who showed up at the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, Monday, to update his sex offender registry, was arrested on a warrant. Records indicated 27-year old Zachary Dekota Olson was wanted on a current active warrant for Failure to Comply with the Iowa Sex Offender Registry/2nd or subsequent offense. Olson was taken in to custody and transported to Corrections where he was read the warrant. He was then handed over to Corrections Staff.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa House member has won a special election to replace state Sen. Bill Dix, who resigned after a video surfaced showing him kissing a lobbyist. Officials say 60-year-old Republican Annette Sweeney won 56 percent of the votes Tuesday for the Senate District 25 seat against 44 percent for 35-year-old Democrat Tracy Freese. The district is composed of Grundy and Hardin counties, and portions of Butler and Story counties. Sweeney was a member of the Iowa House from 2009 to 2013.

Dix was Senate majority leader until he quit on March 12. He stepped down after a video was published on the website Iowa Starting Line that showed the married Shell Rock Republican kissing a Statehouse lobbyist at a bar.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, chair of the Judiciary Committee, led a hearing Tuesday that featured testimony from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The online social network is at the center of a data scandal in which Cambridge Analytica gained access to personal information of 87-million Facebook users. In his opening statement, Grassley raised the possibility of legislation to protect consumers. “Our policy towards data privacy and security must keep pace with these changes,” Grassley said. “Data privacy should be tethered to consumer needs and expectations.”

Grassley also called on Facebook and the operators of other social networks to do more to protect users’ privacy. “The tech industry has an obligation to respond to widespread and growing concerns over data privacy and security and to restore the public trust. The status quo no longer works,” Grassley said. Later in the hearing, Grassley questioned Zuckerberg directly. “Why doesn’t Facebook disclose to its users all the ways that data might be used by Facebook and other third parties? And what is Facebook’s responsibility to inform users about that information?” Zuckerberg responded, “Mr. Chairman, I believe it’s important to tell people exactly how the information that they share on Facebook is going to be used.”

Zuckerberg said his company and others in the tech industry have “found it challenging” to draft privacy policies that are easy for users to understand. “And if you make it long and spell out all the detail, then you’re probably going to reduce the percent of people who read it and make it accessible to them,” Zuckerberg said. “So, one of the things that we’ve struggled with over time is to make something that is as simple as possible so people can understand it, as well as giving them controls in line in the product in the context of when they’re trying to actually use them, taking into account that we don’t expect that most people will want to go through and read a full legal document.”

Zuckerberg, who faced nearly five hours of questioning, called legislation that would require Facebook to automatically let users “opt out” of having their data collected or shared “the right principle,” but added “the details matter.”

(Radio Iowa)