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March 2025

To prepare our Iowa State Gun Laws for translation into Spanish, we revised 13 questions for clarity and accuracy, and created three new questions that help explain Iowa’s laws more clearly. We also added seven new statutes to our Selected Iowa Statutes page.

We updated the information for 74 resources on our Colorado Courthouse Locations page in English and Spanish.

We updated the information for 115 resources on our Missouri Courthouse Locations page in English and Spanish.

We translated into Spanish recent revisions made in English to our Rhode Island Suing an Abuser for Money page.

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