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Iowa law, in your pocket.
Iowa criminal and traffic statutes, the Iowa decisions that interpret them, and field guides that walk the call — built from published state sources, on your phone with no signal needed. Covers Iowa Code Title XVI and Iowa Code Title VIII.
STATUTE DETAIL IN THE APP
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The rules that are Iowa’s own.
Federal cases set the minimum. Iowa’s courts have their own answers — and those are the ones that control your stop, your search, your report.
State v. Brown
Iowa follows the federal Whren rule: an officer’s subjective motivation for a traffic stop is irrelevant as long as there is objectively reasonable cause to believe a traffic law was violated — pretextual stops remain lawful under the Iowa Constitution.
930 N.W.2d 840FULL BRIEF IN THE IA PACK →
State v. Kreps
Reasonable suspicion for an investigatory stop is judged by an objective standard under the totality of the circumstances; an officer need not rule out innocent explanations first, but an unparticularized hunch is never enough.
650 N.W.2d 636FULL BRIEF IN THE IA PACK →
State v. McIver
An OWI traffic stop was valid, and Iowa’s implied-consent law does NOT require an officer to offer a blood or urine test in place of a breath test when a drugged-driving motorist demands one — refusing the requested test simply triggers the implied-consent license penalty.
858 N.W.2d 699FULL BRIEF IN THE IA PACK →
FIELD GUIDES — STEP-BY-STEP FLOWCHARTS
The call, one decision at a time.
DV, juveniles, hospital holds, use of force, traffic — each guide walks the fork in the road with the Iowa law and procedure built in, the way an FTO would talk you through it.
Iowa paper plates, decoded.
Non-compliant / fraudulent cards
Carried in the scanner’s state reference with the format details behind it.
The temp-tag scanner is free for verified law enforcement — with or without a subscription. SEE HOW THE SCANNER WORKS →
Federal cases that reach every Iowa stop.
Pennsylvania v. Mimms (1977)
Ordering the driver out on a lawful stop — what it covers, and what it doesn’t.
Arizona v. Gant (2009)
Once the arrestee is secured, the automatic car search is gone. The two narrow windows that remain.
Riley v. California (2014)
Seizing the phone is one question. Searching its data is another.
Cross the line, keep the reference.
Task force, bi-state agency, or a beat near the border — every state gets the same breakdown, and the FEDERAL KIT travels with you.
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