A two-year study by the Iowa A-C-L-U and the University of Iowa College of Law Clinic has found no standard set of guidelines for Iowa law officers when it comes to using tasers. The devices use electrical charges to try to bring people under control.
U-I Law Clinic professor, Nathan Miller, help conduct the study of the taser regulations for law officers in all 99 counties and several cities.

Miller says they were surprised to find no standard state policy guidelines.

Miller says Iowa’s legislature should consider adopting statewide guidelines for using the devices before more problems develop. Miller says a standard policy would benefit both citizens and law enforcement.
The report found more than 265 Iowa law enforcement agencies are currently using tasers, and that number will increase as state agents under the jurisdiction of the Iowa Department of Public Safety will soon also carry tasers.