237.19 - LOCAL CITIZEN FOSTER CARE REVIEW BOARDS.
237.19 LOCAL CITIZEN FOSTER CARE REVIEW BOARDS.
1. The state board shall establish local citizen foster care
review boards to review cases of children receiving foster care. The
department shall discontinue its foster care review process for those
children reviewed by local boards as local boards are established and
operating. The state board shall select five members and two
alternate members to serve on each local board in consultation with
the chief judge of each judicial district. The actual number of
local boards needed and established shall be determined by the state
board. The members of each local board shall consist of persons of
the various social, economic, racial, and ethnic groups and various
occupations of their district. A person employed by the state board
or the department, the department of inspections and appeals, the
district court, an employee of an agency with which the department
contracts for services for children under foster care, a foster
parent providing foster care, or a child- placing agency shall not
serve on a local board. The state board shall provide the names of
the members of the local boards to the department.
2. Vacancies on a local board shall be filled in the same manner
as original appointments. The members shall not receive per diem but
shall receive reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses
incurred in their duties as members. Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1279, § 30; 88 Acts, ch 1233, § 9; 92 Acts, ch 1141, §
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Referred to in § 232.13, 232.147, 232.149A, 235A.15, 237.15
Local boards to be established in additional judicial districts as
moneys become available; 88 Acts, ch 1233, §21