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1.A person, agency, or other recipient of child abuse information authorized to receive
such information shall not redisseminate such information, except that redissemination shall
be permitted when all of the following conditions apply:
a.The redissemination is for official purposes in connection with prescribed duties or, in
the case of a health practitioner, pursuant to professional responsibilities.
b.The person to whom such information would be redisseminated would have
independent access to the same information under section 235A.15.
c.A written record is made of the redissemination, including the name of the recipient
and the date and purpose of the redissemination.
d.Thewrittenrecordisforwardedtotheregistrywithinthirtydaysoftheredissemination.
2.The department may notify oral
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1. A person, agency, or other recipient of child abuse information authorized to receive
such information shall not redisseminate such information, except that redissemination shall
be permitted when all of the following conditions apply:
a. The redissemination is for official purposes in connection with prescribed duties or, in
the case of a health practitioner, pursuant to professional responsibilities.
b. The person to whom such information would be redisseminated would have
independent access to the same information under section 235A.15.
c. A written record is made of the redissemination, including the name of the recipient
and the date and purpose of the redissemination.
d. Thewrittenrecordisforwardedtotheregistrywithinthirtydaysoftheredissemination.
2. The department may notify orally the mandatory reporter in an individual child
abuse case of the results of the case assessment and of the confidentiality provisions of
sections 235A.15 and 235A.21. The department shall subsequently transmit a written notice
to the mandatory reporter of the results and confidentiality provisions. If the report data
and disposition data have been placed in the registry as founded child abuse pursuant to
section 232.71D, a copy of the written notice shall be transmitted to the registry and shall be
maintained by the registry as provided in section 235A.18. Otherwise, a copy of the written
notice shall be retained by the department with the case file.
3. a. For the purposes of this subsection, “subject of a child abuse report” means any
individual listed in section 235A.15, subsection 2, paragraph “a”, other than the attorney or
guardian ad litem of such individual.
b. An individual who is the subject of a child abuse report may redisseminate to the
governor or the governor’s designee or to a member of the general assembly or an employee
of the general assembly designated by the member, child abuse information that was
disseminated to the individual by the department or other official source. The child abuse
information may also include the following related information that the individual is allowed
under law to possess:
(1) Department information described in section 217.30, subsection 2.
(2) Mental health information as defined in section 228.1.
(3) Juvenile court social records and other information in official juvenile court records
described in section 232.147.
c. A person who receives confidential child abuse information and related information
redisseminated under this subsection shall not further disseminate, communicate, or attempt
to communicate the information to a person who is not authorized by this section or other
provision of law to have access to the information.