915.17 Notification by department of corrections.
1. The department of corrections shall notify a registered victim, regarding an offender convicted of a violent crime and committed to the custody of the director of the department of corrections, of the following:
a. The date on which the offender is expected to be released from custody on work release, and whether the offender is expected to return to the community where the registered victim resides.
b. The date on which the offender is expected to be temporarily released from custody on furlough, and whether the offender is expected to return to the community where the registered victim resides.
c. The offender’s escape from custody.
d. The recommendation by the department of the offender for parole consideration.
e. The date on which the offender is expected to be released from an institution pursuant to a plan of parole or upon discharge of sentence.
f. The transfer of custody of the offender to another state or federal jurisdiction.
g. The procedures for contacting the department to determine the offender’s current institution of residence.
h. Information which may be obtained upon request pertaining to or the procedures for obtaining information upon request pertaining to the offender’s current employer.
2. The director of the department of corrections, or the director’s designee, having probable cause to believe that a person has escaped from a state correctional institution or a person convicted of a forcible felony who is released on work release has absconded from a work release facility shall:
a. Make a complaint before a judge or magistrate. If it is determined from the complaint or accompanying affidavits that there is probable cause to believe that the person has escaped from a state correctional institution or that the forcible felon has absconded from a work release facility, the judge or magistrate shall issue a warrant for the arrest of the person.
b. Issue an announcement regarding the fact of the escape of the person or the abscondence of the forcible felon to the law enforcement authorities in, and to the news media covering, communities in a twenty-five mile radius of the point of escape or abscondence.
98 Acts, ch 1090, §12, 84
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