Information contained in the sex offender registry is a confidential record under section 22.7, subsection 9, and shall only be disseminated or redisseminated as follows:
1. The department or a sheriff may disclose information to criminal or juvenile justice agencies for law enforcement or prosecution purposes.
2. The department may disclose information to government agencies which are conducting confidential background investigations.
3. The department or a criminal or juvenile justice agency with case-specific authorization from the department may release relevant information from the registry regarding a criminal offense against a minor, sexual exploitation, or a sexually violent offense, that is necessary to protect the public concerning a specific person who is required to register under this chapter.
4. The department may disseminate departmental analyses of information contained in the sex offender registry to persons conducting bona fide research, if the data does not contain individually identified information, as defined under section 692.1.
5. Criminal history data contained in the registry may be released as provided in chapter 692 or used by criminal or juvenile justice agencies as an index for purposes of locating a relevant conviction record.
6. A sheriff shall release information regarding a specific person who is required to register under this chapter to a member of the general public if the person requesting the information gives the person's name and address in writing, states the person's reason for requesting the information, and provides the sheriff with the name and address of the person about whom the information is sought. The sheriff shall maintain a record of persons requesting information from the registry. The record of persons requesting information from the registry is a confidential record under section 22.7, subsection 9, unless the person requesting the information from the registry requests that the record of the information request be a public record.
7. Records regarding the persons requesting registry information shall be maintained for ten years.
8. Notwithstanding sections 232.147 through 232.151, records concerning convictions for criminal offenses against a minor or sexually violent offenses which are committed by a minor may be released in the same manner as records of convictions of adults.
95 Acts, ch 146, §13; 96 Acts, ch 1034, § 60; 96 Acts, ch 1132, § 5
Referred to in § 692A.10
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