Iowa State Auditor Mary Mosiman says she doesn’t see much of an impact from a three-year old state law that was designed to crack down on embezzlement in Iowa’s small towns. The state auditor is now conducting surprise inspections for 600 small towns once every eight years.
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Mosiman says doing the checks and then publicizing it when they find something wrong has helped in some ways.
She says the threat of surprise inspections is sometimes not enough to stop someone.
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The auditor says a handful of towns have received a second follow-up visit. She says some small cities are surprised that the state is taking their bookkeeping practices seriously.