235A.14 - CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A CENTRAL REGISTRY.

        235A.14  CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A CENTRAL
      REGISTRY.
         1.  There is created within the state department of human services
      a central registry for child abuse information.  The department shall
      organize and staff the registry and adopt rules for its operation.
         2.  The registry shall collect, maintain and disseminate child
      abuse information as provided for by this chapter.
         3.  The department shall maintain a toll-free telephone line,
      which shall be available on a twenty-four hour a day, seven-day a
      week basis and which the department of human services and all other
      persons may use to report cases of suspected child abuse and that all
      persons authorized by this chapter may use for obtaining child abuse
      information.
         4.  An oral report of suspected child abuse initially made to the
      central registry shall be immediately transmitted by the department
      to the appropriate county department of social services or law
      enforcement agency, or both.
         5.  The registry, upon receipt of a report of suspected child
      abuse, shall search the records of the registry, and if the records
      of the registry reveal any previous report of child abuse involving
      the same child or any other child in the same family, or if the
      records reveal any other pertinent information with respect to the
      same child or any other child in the same family, the appropriate
      office of the department of human services or law enforcement agency
      shall be immediately notified of that fact.
         6.  The central registry shall include report data and disposition
      data which is subject to placement in the central registry under
      section 232.71D.  The central registry shall not include assessment
      data.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 235A.14] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 97 Acts, ch 176, § 8
         Referred to in § 232.68, 235A.12, 235A.13, 279.13