216A.6 - CONFIDENTIALITY OF INDIVIDUAL CLIENT ADVOCACY RECORDS.
216A.6 CONFIDENTIALITY OF INDIVIDUAL CLIENT ADVOCACY
RECORDS.
1. For purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise
requires:
a. "Advocacy services" means services in which a department
staff member writes or speaks in support of a client or a client's
cause or refers a person to another service to help alleviate or
solve a problem.
b. "Individual client advocacy records" means those files or
records which pertain to problems divulged by a client to the
department or any related papers or records which are released to the
department about a client for the purpose of assisting the client.
2. Information pertaining to clients receiving advocacy services
shall be held confidential, including but not limited to the
following:
a. Names and addresses of clients receiving advocacy
services.
b. Information about a client reported on the initial
advocacy intake form and all documents, information, or other
material relating to the advocacy issues or to the client which could
identify the client, or divulge information about the client.
c. Information concerning the social or economic conditions
or circumstances of particular clients who are receiving or have
received advocacy services.
d. Department or division evaluations of information about a
person seeking or receiving advocacy services.
e. Medical or psychiatric data, including diagnoses and past
histories of disease or disability, concerning a person seeking or
receiving advocacy services.
f. Legal data, including records which represent or
constitute the work product of an attorney, which are related to a
person seeking or receiving advocacy services.
3. Information described in subsection 2 shall not be disclosed
or used by any person or agency except for purposes of administration
of advocacy services, and shall not be disclosed to or used by a
person or agency outside the department except upon consent of the
client as evidenced by a signed release.
4. This section does not restrict the disclosure or use of
information regarding the cost, purpose, number of clients served or
assisted, and results of an advocacy program administered by the
department, and other general and statistical information, so long as
the information does not identify particular clients or persons
provided with advocacy services. Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1106, §1
C89, § 601K.6
C93, § 216A.6