Men arrested for breaking into Dallas County Courthouse after judicial branch hires them to test 'vulnerability' of court records

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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/09/11/men-arrested-burglary-dallas-county-iowa-courthouse-hired-judicial-branch-test-security-ia-crime/2292295001/

By Anna Spoerre
Des Moines Register
September 11, 2019

Two men arrested for breaking into the Dallas County Courthouse told law 
enforcement they were hired to do so by the judicial branch.

The men, outfitted with numerous burglary tools, told authorities they 
were on contract to test out the courthouse alarm system's viability and 
to gauge law enforcement's response time, an alleged contract that Dallas 
County officials said they had no knowledge of, according to a criminal 
complaint.

Authorities later found out the state court administration did, in fact, 
hire the men to attempt "unauthorized access" to court records "through 
various means" in order to check for potential security vulnerabilities of 
Iowa's electronic court records, according to Iowa Judicial Branch 
officials.

But, the state court administration "did not intend, or anticipate, those 
efforts to include the forced entry into a building," a Wednesday news 
release from the Iowa Judicial Branch read.

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