The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa has a brochure (pictured below) to help you protect yourself against COVID-19 scams.

(Radio Iowa) — The Waterloo man who spent two years lobbying to be able to cut hair in a mobile barbershop is hoping to expand his operation. First, though, William Burt has to wait alongside every other barbershop in the state for the COVID-19 closure to be lifted. “It’s another hurdle I’ve got to get over,” Burt says.  Burt, a first-time father at the age of 14 who became a barber after being released from prison, is the subject a short film produced and just released by Americans for Prosperity. The group lobbied alongside Burt to get the state law changed this spring so Burt’s mobile barbershop business could take off. Drew Klein is Americans for Prosperity Iowa state director. “It’s not every day that you get a story that is, from start to finish, this compelling,” Klein says.

The short film is mainly about Burt and his “Kut Kings” mobile barber shop business. However, it briefly focuses on Burt, who lost his right to vote because of his felony conviction, successfully applying to have his voting rights restored. “I’ve got a film crew standing here recording me with tears in my eyes,” Burt said near the end of the film. Burt told reporters last (Tuesday) night that he’s had one inquiry about franchising his business. He’s hoping to open more mobile barbershops to serve major Iowa metros like Davenport and Des Moines.

(Radio Iowa) — State Auditor Rob Sand is asking Governor Kim Reynolds to provide the public more information about the 12-point scale she’s using to monitor the spread of COVID-19 — and decide if, when and where she might order a shelter-in-place order. “This tool is being used to guide life and death decisions,” Sand said. “Life and death decisions deserve answers — good ones.”

Last week, Reynolds and the deputy director of the Iowa Department of Public Health said after 9/11, state officials began developing plans for responding to a variety of disasters — and the state epidemiologist has tailored the tool for this pandemic using Centers for Disease Control guidance. Reynolds yesterday told reporters Iowa isn’t like New York or New Jersey and it would be irresponsible to issue a statewide shelter-in-place order. “We’re doing it on a community, county, region basis,” Reynolds says. “…By using these metrics, then, we will be able to, if we hit a certain point where we think we have to take additional actions or additional steps, we can do that.”

Sand, a Democrat, says giving Iowans more information will help them make better informed decisions about their actions during the pandemic. Reynolds, a Republican, has said every Iowan needs to take responsibility for their health and the health of others and stay home.

CLINTON, Iowa (AP) — Officials say a suspect has been shot and killed by an officer during a police chase in eastern Iowa. The Iowa Department of Public Safety said late this (Wednesday) morning, the individual who was shot by an officer with the Clinton Police Department has been identified as 38-year old Jacob Matthew Dau, of Clinton, Iowa. Dau was shot at around 10:45-p.m. Tuesday, after the officer tried to stop a fleeing vehicle.

Clinton Police Chief Kevin Gyrion the vehicle was chased into nearby Camanche and back to Clinton when a pursuing officer fired his service weapon at the vehicle, hitting the suspect. Dau was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. The officer was not injured. Per departmental policy, the officer has been placed on paid administrative leave. Authorities will not release the police officer’s name until the officer has been interviewed.