235B.12 Criminal penalties.
1. Any person who willfully requests, obtains, or seeks to obtain dependent adult abuse information under false pretenses, or who willfully communicates or seeks to communicate dependent adult abuse information to any person except in accordance with sections 235B.6 through 235B.8, or any person connected with any research authorized pursuant to section 235B.6 who willfully falsifies dependent adult abuse information or any records relating to the information is guilty of a serious misdemeanor. Any person who knowingly, but without criminal purposes, communicates or seeks to communicate dependent adult abuse information except in accordance with sections 235B.6 through 235B.8 is guilty of a simple misdemeanor.
2. Any reasonable grounds for belief that a person has violated any provision of this chapter is grounds for the immediate withdrawal of any authorized access the person might otherwise have to dependent adult abuse information.
91 Acts, ch 231, §12
Referred to in §235B.4, 235B.8, 235B.10, 235E.2, 235E.4
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 235B - DEPENDENT ADULT ABUSE SERVICES — INFORMATION REGISTRY
Section 235B.1 - Dependent adult abuse services.
Section 235B.3 - Dependent adult abuse reports.
Section 235B.3A - Prevention of additional abuse — notification of rights.
Section 235B.4 - Legislative findings and purposes.
Section 235B.5 - Creation and maintenance of a central registry.
Section 235B.6 - Authorized access.
Section 235B.7 - Requests for dependent adult abuse information.
Section 235B.8 - Redissemination of dependent adult abuse information.
Section 235B.9 - Sealing and expungement of dependent adult abuse information.
Section 235B.10 - Examination, requests for correction or expungement, and appeal.
Section 235B.11 - Civil remedy.
Section 235B.12 - Criminal penalties.
Section 235B.13 - Registry reports.
Section 235B.16 - Information, education, and training requirements.
Section 235B.16A - Dependent adults — dependency assessments — interagency training.
Section 235B.19 - Emergency order for protective services.
Section 235B.20 - Dependent adult abuse — initiation of charges — penalty.