235A.17 - REDISSEMINATION OF CHILD ABUSE INFORMATION.
235A.17 REDISSEMINATION OF CHILD ABUSE INFORMATION.
1. A person, agency or other recipient of child abuse information
authorized to receive such information shall not redisseminate such
information, except that redissemination shall be permitted when all
of the following conditions apply:
a. The redissemination is for official purposes in connection
with prescribed duties or, in the case of a health practitioner,
pursuant to professional responsibilities.
b. The person to whom such information would be
redisseminated would have independent access to the same information
under section 235A.15.
c. A written record is made of the redissemination, including
the name of the recipient and the date and purpose of the
redissemination.
d. The written record is forwarded to the registry within
thirty days of the redissemination.
2. The department of human services may notify orally the
mandatory reporter in an individual child abuse case of the results
of the case assessment and of the confidentiality provisions of
sections 235A.15 and 235A.21. The department shall subsequently
transmit a written notice to the mandatory reporter of the results
and confidentiality provisions. If the report data and disposition
data have been placed in the registry as founded child abuse pursuant
to section 232.71D, a copy of the written notice shall be transmitted
to the registry and shall be maintained by the registry as provided
in section 235A.18. Otherwise, a copy of the written notice shall be
retained by the department with the case file.
3. For the purposes of this subsection, "subject of a child
abuse report" means any individual listed in section 235A.15,
subsection 2, paragraph "a", other than the attorney or guardian
ad litem of such individual. An individual who is the subject of a
child abuse report may redisseminate to the governor or the
governor's designee or to a member of the general assembly or an
employee of the general assembly designated by the member, child
abuse information that was disseminated to the individual by the
department or other official source. The child abuse information may
also include the following related information that the individual is
allowed under law to possess: department of human services
information described in section 217.30, subsection 1; mental health
information as defined in section 228.1; and juvenile court social
records and other information in official juvenile court records
described in section 232.147. A person who receives confidential
child abuse information and related information redisseminated under
this subsection shall not further disseminate, communicate, or
attempt to communicate the information to a person who is not
authorized by this section or other provision of law to have access
to the information. Section History: Early Form
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 235A.17] Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1279, § 23; 87 Acts, ch 153, § 13; 97 Acts, ch 35,
§17, 25; 97 Acts, ch 176, § 10, 38, 43; 2000 Acts, ch 1137, §10, 14
Referred to in § 216A.136, 232.68, 235A.12, 235A.13, 235A.15,
235A.21