§ 235A.14 — Creation and maintenance of a central registry

Iowa § 235A.14

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VI: HUMAN SERVICES
• Ch. 235A: CHILD ABUSE

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1. There is created within the department a central registry for certain child abuse
information. The department shall organize and staff the registry and adopt rules for its
operation.
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2. The registry shall collect, maintain and disseminate child abuse information as
provided for by this chapter.
3. The department shall maintain a toll-free telephone line, which shall be available on
a twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week basis and which the department and all other
persons may use to report cases of suspected child abuse and that all persons authorized by
this chapter may use for obtaining child abuse information.
4. An oral report of suspected child abuse initially made to the central registry shall be
immediately transmitted by the department to the appropriate county department of human
services or law enforcement agency, or both.
5. The registry, upon receipt of a report of suspected child abuse, shall search the records
of the registry, and if the records of the registry reveal any previous report of child abuse
involving the same child or any other child in the same family, or if the records reveal
any other pertinent information with respect to the same child or any other child in the
same family, the appropriate office of the department or law enforcement agency shall be
immediately notified of that fact.
6. The central registry shall include report data and disposition data which is subject to
placementinthecentralregistryundersection232.71D. Thecentralregistryshallnotinclude
assessment data.

Legislative History

[C75, 77, 79, 81, §235A.14]