235A.21 - CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
235A.21 CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
1. Any person who willfully requests, obtains, or seeks to obtain
child abuse information under false pretenses, or who willfully
communicates or seeks to communicate child abuse information to any
agency or person except in accordance with sections 235A.15 and
235A.17, or any person connected with any research authorized
pursuant to section 235A.15 who willfully falsifies child abuse
information or any records relating to child abuse information, or
any employee of the department who knowingly destroys assessment data
except in accordance with rule as established by the department for
retention of child abuse information under section 235A.18 is guilty
of a serious misdemeanor. Any person who knowingly, but without
criminal purposes, communicates or seeks to communicate child abuse
information except in accordance with sections 235A.15 and 235A.17
shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor.
2. Any reasonable grounds for belief that a person has violated
any provision of this chapter shall be grounds for the immediate
withdrawal of any authorized access such person might otherwise have
to child abuse information. Section History: Early Form
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 235A.21] Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 176, § 14, 42, 43
Referred to in § 232.68, 235A.12, 235A.13, 235A.17, 235A.19