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SIOUX CITY | A new supervisory order by the Iowa Supreme Court will enable individual counties to seek to allow weapons in public areas of floors of a courthouse that are not totally occupied by the court system.

The order could alter the dynamics of courthouse security in the Woodbury County Courthouse and elsewhere in the state.

Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady on Tuesday issued a two-page supervisory order, to update his weapons prohibition order of June 2017, which came 12 days before an expanded gun rights bill took effect in the state.

Cady's new order says the other elements of the June order remain, but after consultation with chief judges, sheriffs and other county officials there can be a way for weapons to be taken in floors without court system elements.

"Upon written request of a county board of supervisors, or other controlling entity, the chief judge shall modify the weapons prohibition imposed by the supervisory order by eliminating the prohibition in public areas on those floors of a courthouse not totally occupied by the court system," Cady wrote.