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.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §235A.21]
97 Acts, ch 176, §14, 42, 43
Referred to in §235A.12, 235A.17, 235A.19
Structure Iowa Code
Section 235A.1 - Child abuse prevention program.
Section 235A.2 - Child abuse prevention program fund.
Section 235A.12 - Legislative findings and purposes.
Section 235A.13 - Definitions.
Section 235A.14 - Creation and maintenance of a central registry.
Section 235A.15 - Authorized access — procedures involving other states.
Section 235A.16 - Requests for child abuse information.
Section 235A.17 - Redissemination of child abuse information.
Section 235A.18 - Sealing and expungement of founded child abuse information.
Section 235A.19 - Examination, requests for correction or expungement and appeal.
Section 235A.20 - Civil remedy.
Section 235A.21 - Criminal penalties.
Section 235A.22 - Education program.
Section 235A.24 - Order for disclosure or release of child abuse information.