Two security professionals who were hired by the Iowa Judicial Branch to do a security assessment have received a $600,000 settlement after the county wrongly arrested them and fought them for years. In 2019, Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn were working at the Dallas County Courthouse and triggered an alarm as part of a penetration test. When deputies showed up, the testers showed their authorization papers, and that seemed to be the end of it. But when Sheriff Chad Leonard arrived, he had them charged with felony burglary. Leonard insisted he controls the courthouse and is the only one who can authorize such work. The charges were later reduced to misdemeanors and eventually dropped even as Leonard still insisted the testers' actions were illegal.
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