Feb 28, 2024 · A federal court on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, dismissed a legal challenge to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ policy prohibiting schools from instituting mask requirements, which was brought by families of students with disabilities during the height of the COVID pandemic.

May 20, 2021 · Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation into law Thursday that blocks mask mandates from being implemented in K-12 schools and prohibits cities and counties from requiring facial coverings in...

Nov 2, 2022 · Gov. Kim Reynolds today announced she has appealed a district court ruling issued yesterday that allows school districts to impose universal mask mandates, despite a state law passed and signed into law in May 2021.

Feb 29, 2024 · A federal court on Tuesday dismissed a legal challenge to Gov. Kim Reynolds' policy prohibiting schools from instituting mask requirements, which was brought by families of students with ...

Nov 18, 2020 · “I don’t want to do this,” Gov. Kim Reynolds said, joining a wave of Republican governors issuing new mask orders as her state faces a spiraling hospital crisis. Iowa’s governor this week...

Nov 17, 2020 · Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds issued the state's first mask mandate as coronavirus spiked in the last two weeks after months of disparaging face covering restrictions as “feel good” measures.

May 20, 2021 · Leaders of Iowa school districts cannot require students or staff to wear masks, and Iowa cities and counties cannot impose mask mandates under a law Gov. Kim Reynolds signed early Thursday.

Sep 20, 2021 · The lawyer representing Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds in a federal lawsuit over mandatory mask use in schools has asked the judge to allow a temporary order that has allowed schools to implement...

Feb 27, 2024 · Gov. Kim Reynolds released the following statement in response to the U.S. 8th Circuit ruling in The Arc of Iowa v Reynolds: “While children were the least vulnerable, they paid the highest price for COVID lockdowns and mandates, but Iowa was a different story.

She won a full term as governor in 2018 and was reelected in 2022. Reynolds shifted the Iowa Supreme Court to the right through her judicial appointments and has a close relationship with the Iowa pork industry. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Reynolds opposed face mask mandates. In 2023, she signed a six-week abortion ban into law in Iowa.