235B.5 - CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A CENTRAL REGISTRY.
235B.5 CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A CENTRAL
REGISTRY.
1. There is created within the department a central registry for
dependent adult abuse information. The department shall organize and
staff the registry and adopt rules for its operation.
2. The registry shall collect, maintain, and disseminate
dependent adult abuse information as provided in 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 and all other persons
may use to report cases of suspected dependent adult abuse and that
all persons authorized by this chapter may use for obtaining
dependent adult abuse information.
4. An oral report of suspected dependent adult abuse initially
made to the central registry shall be immediately transmitted by the
department to the appropriate county department of human services or
law enforcement agency, or both.
5. An oral report of suspected dependent adult abuse initially
made to the central registry regarding a facility or program as
defined in section 235E.1 shall be transmitted by the department to
the department of inspections and appeals on the first working day
following the submitting of the report.
6. The registry, upon receipt of a report of suspected dependent
adult abuse, shall search the records of the registry, and if the
records of the registry reveal any previous report of dependent adult
abuse involving the same adult or if the records reveal any other
pertinent information with respect to the same adult, the appropriate
office of the department of human services or the appropriate law
enforcement agency shall be immediately notified of that fact.
7. The central registry shall include but not be limited to
report data, investigation data, and disposition data. Section History: Recent Form
91 Acts, ch 231, §5; 2008 Acts, ch 1093, §7
Referred to in § 235B.4, 235E.2, 235E.4, 279.13