Sheriff: Former ISU Cyclones Basketball Coach Violates Sex Offender Registry

Randall Alan Brown, 55, a former ISU assistant basketball coach, has been charged with violating the sex offender registry for allegedly participating in a youth basketball camp in Humboldt County.

Ames police served the Humboldt County warrant Wednesday morning. Brown participated in a youth basketball camp in Humboldt County in March 2012, according to records at the Ames Police Department. He was convicted of receiving child pornography in 2004.

The complaint from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office stated that Brown participated in a basketball camp for minors in March 2012 and provided instruction to the minors violating “exclusion zones.”

Brown was registered as a sex offender at the time and remains on the registry to date.

No other information was available on the sex offender registry offense at the time of this report.

Brown was convicted on one charge of receiving child pornography in Polk County in 2004 according to the sex offender registry website. He was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for the crime, according to an article in the Iowa State Daily. Part of his sentence included that he not have any contact with children under the age of 18 unless accompanied by a responsible adult, the daily reported.

According to the sex offender registry any registrant, whose victim was a minor, cannot be present on elementary or secondary school grounds, a child care facility, public library or any place primarily intended for use by minors without written permission from the administrator of that place.

Ames Police Sgt. Rory Echer said Brown may have also failed to report his temporary Humboldt County address during the time he worked at the camp.

Brown became an assistant coach at the university in 1999, and was put on leave in 2003 after the child pornography investigation began, according to Daily reports.