Senate File 140 - Enrolled

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1	1	SENATE FILE 140
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1	3	AN ACT
1	4 RELATING TO THE TIME PERIOD FOR WHICH PEACE OFFICERS'
1	5	INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS AND SPECIFIC PORTIONS OF ELECTRONIC
1	6	MAIL AND TELEPHONE BILLING RECORDS ARE TO BE KEPT
1	7	CONFIDENTIAL.
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1	9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 11	Section 1.	Section 22.7, subsection 5, Code 2007, is
1 12 amended to read as follows:
1 13	5.	Peace officers' investigative reports, and specific
1 14 portions of electronic mail and telephone billing records of
1 15 law enforcement agencies if that information is part of an
1 16 ongoing investigation, except where disclosure is authorized
1 17 elsewhere in this Code.	However, the date, time, specific
1 18 location, and immediate facts and circumstances surrounding a
1 19 crime or incident shall not be kept confidential under this
1 20 section, except in those unusual circumstances where
1 21 disclosure would plainly and seriously jeopardize an
1 22 investigation or pose a clear and present danger to the safety
1 23 of an individual.	Specific portions of electronic mail and
1 24 telephone billing records may only be kept confidential under
1 25 this subsection only for as long as if the length of time
  1 26 prescribed for commencement of prosecution or the finding of
  1 27 an indictment or information under the statute of limitations
1 28 would have run on a respective applicable to the crime that is
1 29 under investigation has not expired.
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1 33	JOHN P. KIBBIE
34	President of the Senate
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2	3	PATRICK J. MURPHY
2	4	Speaker of the House
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2	6	I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
2	7 is known as Senate File 140, Eighty=second General Assembly. 2	8
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2 11	MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
2 12	Secretary of the Senate
2 13 Approved	, 2007
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2 17 CHESTER J. CULVER
2 18 Governor