( Iowa Capital Dispatch ) - Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced Monday that Iowa, alongside three other states, has reached a settlement agreement allowing state officials to access a federal immigration database to verify citizenship status of voters for the next 20 years.

The settlement includes an agreement by the states to provide state driver’s license data to the federal government, Stateline reported Monday.

Bird, as well as Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, were plaintiffs in the case alongside officials from Florida, Ohio and Indiana. The lawsuit challenged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which contains the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, for allegedly withholding information unlawfully about people registered to vote in states, including Iowa,

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