692.7 Criminal penalties.
1. A person who willfully requests, obtains, or seeks to obtain criminal history data under false pretenses, or who willfully communicates or seeks to communicate criminal history data to any agency or person except in accordance with this chapter, or a person connected with a research program authorized pursuant to this chapter who willfully falsifies criminal history data or any records relating thereto, shall, upon conviction, for each such offense be guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor.
2. Any person who willfully requests, obtains, or seeks to obtain intelligence data under false pretenses, or who willfully communicates or seeks to communicate intelligence data to any agency or person except in accordance with this chapter, shall for each such offense be guilty of a class “D” felony. Any person who knowingly, but without criminal purposes, communicates or seeks to communicate intelligence data except in accordance with this chapter shall for each such offense be guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
3. If a person convicted under this section is a peace officer, the conviction shall be grounds for discharge or suspension from duty without pay and if the person convicted is a public official or public employee, the conviction shall be grounds for removal from office.
4. Any reasonable grounds for belief that a public employee has violated any provision of this chapter shall be grounds for immediate removal from all access to criminal history data and intelligence data.
[C75, 77, §749B.7; C79, 81, §692.7]
96 Acts, ch 1150, §6
Referred to in §692.5, 692.9
Structure Iowa Code
Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 692 - CRIMINAL HISTORY AND INTELLIGENCE DATA
Section 692.1 - Definitions of words and phrases.
Section 692.2 - Dissemination of criminal history data — fees.
Section 692.2A - Criminal history data check prepayment fund.
Section 692.3 - Redissemination of arrest data and other information.
Section 692.5 - Right to access and challenge — judicial review.
Section 692.7 - Criminal penalties.
Section 692.8 - Intelligence data.
Section 692.8A - Dissemination of intelligence data.
Section 692.9 - Surveillance data prohibited.
Section 692.11 - Education program.
Section 692.12 - Data processing.
Section 692.14 - Systems for the exchange of criminal history data.
Section 692.15 - Reports to department.
Section 692.16 - Review and removal.
Section 692.17 - Exclusions — purposes.
Section 692.18 - Public records.
Section 692.19 - Confidential records — commissioner’s responsibility.
Section 692.20 - Motor vehicle operator’s record exempt.
Section 692.21 - Data to agency making arrest or taking juvenile into custody.