Iowa Code 692.3 – Redissemination of arrest data and other information
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1. A criminal or juvenile justice agency may redisseminate arrest data, and the name, photograph, physical description, and other identifying information, concerning a person who is wanted or being sought if a warrant for the arrest of that person has been issued. Information relating to any threat the person may pose to the public may also be redisseminated. Any redissemination of information pursuant to this subsection shall also include the statement provided in section 692.2, subsection 1, paragraph “b”, subparagraph (5).
Terms Used In Iowa Code 692.3
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Criminal or juvenile justice agency: means an agency or department of any level of government or an entity wholly owned, financed, or controlled by one or more such agencies or departments which performs as its principal function the apprehension, prosecution, adjudication, incarceration, or rehabilitation of criminal or juvenile offenders. See Iowa Code 692.1
- Department: means the department of public safety. See Iowa Code 692.1
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. A criminal or juvenile justice agency may redisseminate personal information that is in the form of a person’s photograph or digital image or a digital reproduction of a person’s photograph obtained from the department of transportation in accordance with section 321.11 of any of the following persons:
a. A missing person, as defined in section 694.1.
b. A person identified in a missing person report involving an unemancipated minor and there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the person is involved with the minor’s disappearance.
3. The information described in this section may be redisseminated through any written, audio, or visual means utilized by a criminal or juvenile justice agency.