RG 071 Homeland Security

In 1965, Gov. Harold Hughes established the State Civil Defense Agency. In 1992, the office became the Emergency Management Division of the Iowa Department of Public Defense and was renamed to Homeland Security and Emergency Management in 2003. However, other disaster services provided by state government, such as the grasshopper plagues in the 1870s, can be found in the Adjutant General records (RG 101).