Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks throughout her first information convention for the reason that state surpassed a million administered doses of the COVID-19 vaccine March 17 in Johnston.
DES MOINES — Citing “widespread and alarming” threats to public officers together with Gov. Kim Reynolds, the Iowa Division of Public Security stated Friday it’s upgrading safety on the governor’s residence within the historic Terrace Hill mansion.
Safety evaluations at Terrace Hill have included the necessity for, amongst different issues, perimeter fencing, the division stated in a information launch. A wrought iron fence is deliberate across the Victorian mansion that’s on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations. No price was talked about.
Fencing was really useful by the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety, which carried out an evaluation in January 2020. Iowa is one in all only some states remaining with out safety fencing across the governor’s residence.
The foiled try final yr to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “has solely bolstered our long-standing considerations,” the general public security division stated in a press release. Michigan just lately put in a fringe fence on the governor’s residence as a part of a safety improve.
In June, about 1,000 individuals lined the Terrace Hill garden in Des Moines as a part of a Black Lives Matter demonstration.
In March, an Iowa man was arrested by the State Patrol for allegedly leaving a threatening voicemail message for Reynolds, suggesting she ought to be hung for “pushing this COVID rip-off … (and) be put in entrance of a firing squad.” Harvey Hunter Jr., 48, of Begin west of Des Moines, was charged with first-degree harassment, an aggravated misdemeanor, for the message that he left in January.
