Top Republicans in the Iowa House are asking why State Auditor Rob Sand, a Democrat, did not alert them or investigate a computer programming error in the state court system that improperly distributed $53 million in court fines and fees. House Speaker Pat Grassley...
A special investigation by the state auditor’s office has identified conflicts of interest and a lack of documentation for how the City of Hamburg spent some of its flood recovery money. State Auditor Rob Sand said the investigation found family members of a...
A report from State Auditor Rob Sand’s office indicates state officials are not inspecting Iowa nursing homes as often as required by federal law. Nursing homes are to be inspected, on average, every 12.9 months. Sand found the average in Iowa is about four...
State Auditor Rob Sand says a recently dismissed University of Iowa employee “pocketed nearly a million dollars” by using public equipment and public employees for his own business. Brian Busch was the manager of the Department of Physics and Astronomy...
The state auditor’s office has examined operations in the town of Zearing after the city’s former clerk missed two deadlines and the city was unable to collect property taxes for a year. Zearing City Clerk Karen Davis was fired in July of 2022 after she...
