https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/09/11/men-arrested-burglary-dallas-county-iowa-courthouse-hired-judicial-branch-test-security-ia-crime/2292295001/
By Anna Spoerre
Des Moines Register
September 11, 2019
Two men arrested for breaking into the Dallas County Courthouse told law
enforcement they were hired to do so by the judicial branch.
The men, outfitted with numerous burglary tools, told authorities they
were on contract to test out the courthouse alarm system's viability and
to gauge law enforcement's response time, an alleged contract that Dallas
County officials said they had no knowledge of, according to a criminal
complaint.
Authorities later found out the state court administration did, in fact,
hire the men to attempt "unauthorized access" to court records "through
various means" in order to check for potential security vulnerabilities of
Iowa's electronic court records, according to Iowa Judicial Branch
officials.
But, the state court administration "did not intend, or anticipate, those
efforts to include the forced entry into a building," a Wednesday news
release from the Iowa Judicial Branch read.
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