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.
84 Acts, ch 1279, §30; 88 Acts, ch 1233, §9; 92 Acts, ch 1141, §8
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
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 237 - CHILD FOSTER CARE FACILITIES
Section 237.4 - License required — exceptions.
Section 237.5A - Foster parent training.
Section 237.6 - Restricted use of facility.
Section 237.7 - Reports and inspections.
Section 237.9 - Confidential information.
Section 237.12 - Injunctive relief.
Section 237.13 - Foster home insurance fund.
Section 237.14 - Enhanced foster care services.
Section 237.14A - Reasonable and prudent parent standard — immunity from liability.
Section 237.16 - Child advocacy board.
Section 237.17 - Foster care registry.
Section 237.18 - Duties of state board.
Section 237.19 - Local citizen foster care review boards.
Section 237.20 - Local board duties.
Section 237.21 - Confidentiality of records — penalty.