SF2325 prohibits cities with civil service commissions from establishing citizen review boards to oversee police conduct.
The Iowa State Senate passed SF2325 on March 4, 2024 by a vote of 37 to 9. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because citizen review boards are unnecessary government bureaucracies that undermine the law enforcement. These boards often impose external oversight that can disrupt standard law enforcement practices, making it harder for officers to perform their duties and keep communities safe.
United States Constitution
Article IV Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
United States Constitution
10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
