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Iowa Code § 235A.21 (2026)

Criminal penalties

✓ Iowa Code 2026 (laws through the 2025 session)
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1. Any person who willfully requests, obtains, or seeks to obtain child abuse information under false pretenses, or who willfully communicates or seeks to communicate child abuse information to any agency or person except in accordance with sections 235A.15 and 235A.17, or any person connected with any research authorized pursuant to section 235A.15 who willfully falsifies child abuse information or any records relating to child abuse information, or any employee of the department who knowingly destroys assessment data except in accordance with rule as established by the department for retention of child abuse information under section 235A.18 is guilty of a serious misdemeanor. Any person who knowingly, but without criminal purposes, communicates or seeks to communicate child abuse information except in accordance with sections 235A.15 and 235A.17 shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor.

2. Any reasonable grounds for belief that a person has violated any provision of this\n\nTue Dec 09 22:20:52 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 235A (42, 1) §235A.21, CHILD ABUSE 14\n\nchapter shall be grounds for the immediate withdrawal of any authorized access such person might otherwise have to child abuse information. [C75, 77, 79, 81, §235A.21] 97 Acts, ch 176, §14, 42, 43 Referred to in §235A.12, 235A.17, 235A.19 \n

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1988–1988 · leading case: Roth v. Reagen, 422 N.W.2d 464 (Iowa 1988).
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Roth v. Reagen, 422 N.W.2d 464 (Iowa 1988). · cites it 2× “at § 235A.21, and that the aggrieved party is entitled to civil damages, see id.”
Iowa Code § 235A.21(1): 1 case
Roth v. Reagen, 422 N.W.2d 464 (Iowa 1988). “at § 235A.21, and that the aggrieved party is entitled to civil damages, see id.”
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