2009 Iowa Code
Title 6 - Human Services
Subtitle 5 - Juveniles
CHAPTER 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
232.76 - PUBLICITY, EDUCATIONAL, AND TRAINING PROGRAMS.

        232.76  PUBLICITY, EDUCATIONAL, AND TRAINING
      PROGRAMS.
         1.  The department, within the limits of available funds, shall
      conduct a continuing publicity and educational program for the
      personnel of the department, persons required to report, and any
      other appropriate persons to encourage the fullest possible degree of
      reporting of suspected cases of child abuse.  Educational programs
      shall include but not be limited to the diagnosis and cause of child
      abuse, the responsibilities, obligations, duties, and powers of
      persons and agencies under this chapter and the procedures of the
      department and the juvenile court with respect to suspected cases of
      child abuse and disposition of actual cases.
         2. a.  For the purposes of this subsection, in addition to the
      definition in section 232.68, a "child protection worker" also
      includes any employee of the department who provides services to or
      otherwise works directly with children and families for whom child
      abuse has been alleged.
         b.  The training of a child protection worker shall include
      but is not limited to the worker's legal duties to protect the
      constitutional and statutory rights of a child and the child's family
      members throughout the child or family members' period of involvement
      with the department beginning with the child abuse report and ending
      with the department's closure of the case.  The curriculum used for
      the training shall specifically include instruction on the fourth
      amendment to the Constitution of the United States and parents' legal
      rights.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C75, 77, § 235A.10; C79, 81, § 232.76] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         2004 Acts, ch 1152, §3
         Referred to in § 232.68