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Iowa Code § 692.3 — Redissemination of arrest data and other information
Current through 2026 Iowa Code (enactments effective on or before 2026-01-01, through the 2025 Regular Session, 91st G.A.)
Part of Chapter 692: Criminal History and Intelligence Data, Iowa Code.
Full text of Iowa Code § 692.3
Statutory text current through the 2026 Iowa Code (enactments effective on or before 2026-01-01, through the 2025 Regular Session, 91st G.A.). This publication reproduces the statutory text of the official 2026 Iowa Code (Legislative Services Agency); it is not the official publication of the State of Iowa.
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).
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 subsections 1 and 2 may be redisseminated through any written, audio, or visual means utilized by a criminal or juvenile justice agency.
4. A person may disseminate criminal history data of an accused to the attorney of the accused and to self-represented litigants in a pending criminal matter in district or juvenile court, if the criminal history data is already part of the prosecution’s file and subject to a discovery obligation.
5. Upon order of the court, a person may disseminate criminal history data of an accused that is not already part of the prosecution’s file, or criminal history data of a witness, to the attorney of the accused, prosecutors, and to self-represented litigants in a pending criminal matter in district or juvenile court.
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