No individual who acquires through the operation of the provisions of sections 238.17 to 238.23, inclusive, or from the records provided for in this chapter, information relative to any agency or relative to any person cared for by such agency or relative to any relative of any such person, shall directly or indirectly disclose such information except upon inquiry before a court of law, or before some other tribunal, or for the information of the governor, general assembly, medical examiners, administrator, Iowa department of public health, or the local board of health where such agency is located.
Nothing herein shall prohibit the administrator from disclosing such facts to such proper persons as may be in the interest of a child cared for by such agency or in the interest of the child's parents or foster parents and not inimical to the child, or as may be necessary to protect the interests of the child's prospective foster parents. However, disclosure of termination and adoption records shall be governed by the provisions of sections 600.16 and 600.16A.
Nothing herein shall prohibit the statistical analysis by duly authorized persons of data collected by virtue of this chapter or the publication of the results of such analysis in such manner as will not disclose confidential information.
[C27, 31, 35, § 3661-a81; C39, § 3661.095; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 238.24]
92 Acts, ch 1196, § 2
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