Policy Type
Policy Audience
POLICY:
In accordance with Iowa Code Chapter 692A, registered sex offenders convicted of sex offenses against minors may not be present upon or loiter within 300 feet of library real property without written permission of the Library Director.
PROCEDURE:
- The Library Director’s decision may be appealed to the Library Board of Trustees. The Library Director may only give written permission as the result of a vote at a meeting of the Board of Trustees at which a quorum is present.
- Persons barred from library real property under the law remain entitled to library service. They may register for a library account directly with the Library Director, or their designee, via telephone or online. It is the responsibility of the library user to arrange for a courier to select, check out, and return materials to the library through possession of the library user’s card. This account may be used to access the Library’s online materials and databases.
- Persons barred from library real property under the law will not be served by the library’s homebound delivery service.
- The issuance of a library card to individuals who have been convicted of a sex offense involving a minor does not grant those individuals permission to enter the library or to be present on library real property. Individuals convicted of a sex offense against a minor must follow proper library procedures and policies to request and obtain written permission to be on library real property, regardless of whether or not they possess a valid library card.
- Violations of this policy will be immediately reported to law enforcement.
Adopted: June 17, 2009
Amended & Reapproved: April 18, 2012; March 18, 2015; March 21, 2018; May 19, 2021; June 26, 2024