There’s a new policy in force at the Woodbury County Courthouse in Sioux City that limits who may carry weapons into the building. A new state law allows people with permits to carry concealed weapons in public buildings, but the chief justice of Iowa’s Supreme Court has declared that court-controlled areas in public buildings would remain “weapons-free” zones. In June, the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors voted to allow guns in the courthouse. Now, THIS WEEK, the chief judge in Iowa’s third judicial district banned the public from bringing weapons into the courthouse in Sioux City as well as the adjacent law enforcement center and the second floor of a nearby building where juvenile court hearings are held. Woodbury County Board of Supervisors chairman Matthew Ung objects.
Law enforcement officers and members of the military who are on duty will be allowed to carry weapons in the complex, but off duty officials will have to surrender their weapons at the entrance. Ung objects to that as well.
Ung says the issue is NOT on the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors agenda for next Tuesday, but Ung says he wouldn’t be surprised if someone files a lawsuit challenging this new policy.
