Iowa Code Title VI. Human Services [Chs. 216-255A] § 218.22. Record privileged

Except with the consent of the director, or on an order of a court of record, the record provided in section 218.21 shall be accessible only to the director and to assistants and proper clerks authorized by the director. The director may permit the department of administrative services to copy or reproduce by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard or other process which accurately reproduces a durable medium for reproducing the original and to destroy in the manner described by law such records of residents designated in section 218.21.