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Iowa Code § 27.1 (2026)

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✓ Iowa Code 2026 (laws through the 2025 session)
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For purposes of this chapter:

1. “Monitoring device” means a digital video or audio streaming or recording device that is part of a system of monitoring activity in an area or building using a system in which signals are transmitted from a video camera or microphone to the receivers by cables or wirelessly, forming a closed circuit.

2. “Public hospital” means a hospital licensed pursuant to chapter 135B and governed pursuant to chapter 145A, 263, 347, 347A, or 392.

3. “Public library” means a library district as described in chapter 336.

4. “Public school” means a school district as described in chapter 274.

5. “Reasonable expectation of privacy” means a person’s reasonable belief, under the circumstances, that the person can disrobe or partially disrobe in privacy without being concerned that the person is being viewed, photographed, or filmed when doing so. 2017 Acts, ch 135, §1, 6; 2017 Acts, ch 170, §31 \n

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1972–1972 · leading case: Rosenau ex rel. Rosenau v. City of Estherville, 199 N.W.2d 125 (Iowa 1972).
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Rosenau ex rel. Rosenau v. City of Estherville, 199 N.W.2d 125 (Iowa 1972). · cites it 2× “2d 550 (1959); 2 Harper and James, The Law of Torts § 27.1, p. 1432 (1956). One authority notes this system has incurred the displeasure of legal writers, several courts, and has started on its way to discard.”
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