2009 Iowa Code
Title 6 - Human Services
Subtitle 5 - Juveniles
CHAPTER 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
232.175 - PLACEMENT OVERSIGHT.

        232.175  PLACEMENT OVERSIGHT.
         Placement oversight shall be provided pursuant to this division
      when the parent, guardian, or custodian of a child with mental
      retardation or other developmental disability requests placement of
      the child in foster family care for a period of more than thirty
      days.  The oversight shall be provided through review of the
      placement every six months by the department's foster care review
      committees or by a local citizen foster care review board.  Court
      oversight shall be provided prior to the initial placement and at
      periodic intervals which shall not exceed twelve months.  It is the
      purpose and policy of this division to assure the existence of
      oversight safeguards as required by the federal Child Welfare Act of
      1980, Pub. L. No. 96-272, as codified in 42 U.S.C.  § 671(a)(16),
      627(a)(2)(B), and 675(1),(5), while maintaining parental
      decision-making authority.  

         89 Acts, ch 169, § 2; 92 Acts, ch 1141, § 2; 92 Acts, ch 1229, §
      11; 97 Acts, ch 99, § 7; 99 Acts, ch 111, §1, 7
         1999 amendment is effective September 6, 2000; 99 Acts, ch 111, §
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