2009 Iowa Code
Title 6 - Human Services
Subtitle 5 - Juveniles
CHAPTER 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
232.149A - CONFIDENTIALITY ORDERS.

        232.149A  CONFIDENTIALITY ORDERS.
         1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of the Code to the
      contrary, upon application of a person who was taken into custody for
      a delinquent act or was the subject of a complaint alleging
      delinquency or was the subject of a delinquency petition, or upon the
      court's own motion, the court after hearing, shall order official
      juvenile court records in the case to be kept confidential and no
      longer public records under sections 232.147 and 232.149, if the
      court finds both of the following apply:
         a.  The case has been dismissed and the person is no longer
      subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.
         b.  Making the records confidential is in the best interests
      of the person and the public.
         2.  The records subject to a confidentiality order may be sealed
      at a later date if section 232.150 applies.
         3.  Official juvenile court records subject to a confidentiality
      order may be inspected and their contents shall be disclosed to the
      following without court order:
         a.  The judge and professional court staff, including juvenile
      court officers.
         b.  The child and the child's counsel.
         c.  The child's parent, guardian or custodian, court appointed
      special advocate, and guardian ad litem, and the members of the child
      advocacy board created in section 237.16 or a local citizen foster
      care review board created in accordance with section 237.19 who are
      assigning or reviewing the child's case.
         d.  The county attorney and the county attorney's assistants.

         e.  An agency, association, facility, or institution which has
      custody of the child, or is legally responsible for the care,
      treatment, or supervision of the child, including but not limited to
      the department of human services.
         f.  A court, court professional staff, and adult probation
      officers in connection with the preparation of a presentence report
      concerning a person who had been the subject of a juvenile court
      proceeding.
         g.  The child's foster parent or an individual providing
      preadoptive care to the child.
         h.  A state or local law enforcement agency.
         i.  The state public defender.
         4.  If the child has been discharged from the jurisdiction of the
      juvenile court due to reaching the age of eighteen and restitution
      remains unpaid, the name of the court, the title of the action, and
      the court's file number shall not be kept confidential, and the
      restitution amount shall be a judgment and lien as provided in
      sections 910.7A, 910.8, 910.10, and 915.28 until the restitution is
      paid.
         5.  Pursuant to court order, official juvenile court records
      subject to a confidentiality order may be inspected by and their
      contents may be disclosed to:
         a.  A person conducting bona fide research for research
      purposes under whatever conditions the court may deem proper,
      provided that no personal identifying data shall be disclosed to such
      a person.
         b.  Persons who have a direct interest in a proceeding or in
      the work of the court.  

         2006 Acts, ch 1164, §2; 2006 Acts, ch 1185, §77
         Referred to in § 216A.136, 232.147, 232.151, 232C.4, 692A.121