Bills › 89th General Assembly
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 27, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2021
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to the confidentiality of certain law enforcement reports, records, and information under Iowa’s open records law.2 (providing that a law enforcement officer shall not be examined or be required to give evidence in any criminal proceeding regarding certain records and information which are confidential and privileged), and specific portions of electronic mail and telephone billing records of law enforcement agencies if that information is part of an ongoing investigation, shall be kept confidential unless otherwise ordered by a court, by the lawful custodian of the record, or by another authorized person, or where disclosure is authorized elsewhere in Iowa law.
Read the full explanation
However, the date, time, specific location, and immediate facts and circumstances surrounding a crime or incident shall not be kept confidential except in those unusual circumstances where disclosure would plainly and seriously jeopardize an investigation or pose a clear and present danger to the safety of an individual. Specific portions of electronic mail and telephone billing records may only be kept confidential if the length of time prescribed for commencement of prosecution or the finding of an indictment or information under the statute of limitations applicable to the crime that is under investigation has not expired.2. The bill retains current law allowing the release of the date, time, specific location, and immediate facts and circumstances surrounding a crime or incident, and specifies that the “immediate facts and circumstances surrounding a crime or incident” include but are not limited to: the identity of any individual arrested in connection with the crime or incident; the identity of any individual believed to be responsible for the crime or incident if such disclosure would not reasonably frustrate attempts to apprehend the individual; the identity of any victim of the crime or incident, if such information is not otherwise protected by law or court order; any criminal charges filed in connection with the crime or incident; booking photographs from any arrests that occurred in connection with the crime or incident; a concise description of the facts of the crime or incident sufficient to reveal the probable cause for any arrests that occurred in connection with the crime or incident; and any contemporaneous audio or video recordings of the crime or incident. The bill retains current law which provides that specific portions of electronic mail and telephone billing records of law enforcement agencies may be kept confidential if that information is part of an ongoing investigation or if the length of time prescribed for commencement of prosecution or the finding of an indictment or information under the statute of limitations applicable to the crime that is under investigation has not expired.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 28, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.
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