A former southeast Iowa middle school teacher is being sentenced after sending improper messages to a student six years ago. Forty-two-year-old Zachary Barr of Ottumwa will serve a pair of five-year concurrent prison sentences after pleading guilty to enticing a minor and sexual exploitation by a school employee. In 2018, Barr, then a sixth-grade teacher […]
Iowa HHS to replace 1980s-era software to track adoptions and foster care
A new IT system child protective service workers in Iowa rely on to track foster and adoption cases is set roll
