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Benton County Board approves intergovernmental agreements for SRO, mental-health liaison, law enforcement and dispatch services
Summary
The Benton County Board adopted a package of intergovernmental 28E agreements on March 3 approving a school resource officer, a joint law-enforcement mental-health liaison, county law-enforcement contracts with multiple towns and shared dispatch services; all actions were recorded as approved and take effect July 1, 2026.
The Benton County Board of Supervisors voted on March 3 to adopt a series of intergovernmental agreements under Chapter 28E of the Iowa Code to expand county-provided law-enforcement services and related support programs, effective July 1, 2026.
The agreements, adopted unanimously as recorded in the minutes, include a school resource officer for the Benton Community School District (Resolution No. 26-12); a jointly utilized law-enforcement mental-health liaison for the Cities of Belle Plaine, Vinton and Urbana (Resolution No. 26-13); individual county law-enforcement service agreements with Atkins, Blairstown, Garrison, Keystone, Luzerne, Mt. Auburn, Newhall, Norway, Shellsburg, Urbana and Van Horne (Resolution No. 26-14); and shared law-enforcement…
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