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Terms of Use

These terms govern access to and use of Louisa County Criminal History. By visiting or using any part of the website, you accept these conditions. Stop using the website if you do not agree with them.

NO FCRA USE. This privately run website is not affiliated with Louisa County, Iowa, or any government body. It is not a consumer reporting agency. Neither the website nor its advertising partners provide a service for credit, employment, insurance, tenant, or other decisions regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

1. What This Website Is

Louisa County Criminal History is a private reference resource. It directs readers to offices and systems that maintain official material, including the Louisa County Sheriff, Iowa District Court clerk, Iowa Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Investigation, and Iowa Sex Offender Registry. It may also connect users with outside search tools. The website is not a court, police agency, private investigation service, state repository, or consumer reporting agency.

2. Rules for Using This Site

You may use the website only for lawful, personal research and other purposes permitted by these terms. You agree not to disrupt its operation, evade security, use automated means to scrape or overload it, impersonate another person, submit unlawful material, or use information to violate anyone's rights. You are responsible for checking whether your intended use is legal.

3. No Harassment, Stalking, or Discrimination

Information reached through this website must not be used to harass, threaten, stalk, intimidate, or discriminate against anyone. Registry data is provided for public-safety awareness, not vigilantism. Iowa Code chapter 692A controls the Iowa Sex Offender Registry, and misuse may lead to legal consequences.

4. We Are Not a Consumer Reporting Agency

We do not prepare consumer reports and cannot verify information for any use covered by the FCRA. Do not use the website or a linked tool to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing, or another FCRA-regulated benefit. Any legally required consumer report must come from a compliant provider through the proper process.

5. No Legal Advice

Content is general information, not legal advice. It cannot determine how an Iowa charge, warrant, sentence, expungement rule, or record restriction applies to a particular case. A licensed Iowa attorney should address individual legal questions.

6. No Warranties

The website and its content are offered as available, without warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, availability, fitness, or noninfringement. Government records and portals change. Always confirm a result with the office that created the record.

7. Third-Party Services and Links

Outside websites and search services have their own prices, accounts, content, security, privacy policies, and terms. We do not operate or endorse every outside service merely because a link appears here. Use them at your own risk. Referral compensation may be received when a visitor chooses a paid partner service.

8. Intellectual Property

Text, graphics, logos, and code on the website belong to Louisa County Criminal History or its content partners unless stated otherwise. They may not be copied, modified, republished, distributed, or used to create another work without prior written permission, except where law allows.

9. Limits on Our Liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, we are not liable for loss or damage caused by use of the website, reliance on its content, an unavailable service, an outside link, or an error in a public record. This limit includes direct, indirect, incidental, special, and consequential loss.

10. Indemnification

You agree to defend and hold harmless the website, its operators, and its partners from claims, costs, or losses arising from your unlawful use, violation of these terms, or infringement of another person's rights.

11. Governing Law

Iowa law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Iowa Code chapters 22 and 692 govern public-record access and criminal-history dissemination by government custodians, but they do not make this private website an official record source. Any permitted dispute about use of the website must be brought in a court with jurisdiction in Iowa.

12. Changes to These Terms

We may revise these conditions. The version posted here applies from its stated effective date. Continued use after a revision means the visitor accepts the updated terms.

13. Cutting Off Access

Access may be limited or ended without notice when we believe a visitor has violated these terms, harmed the website, or used its resources unlawfully. Any provisions that logically survive termination remain effective.

14. Severability

If a court finds one part of these terms unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect. An invalid term will be limited only as much as needed to make it lawful where possible.

15. Questions

Questions about these terms concern the private website only. Questions about a Louisa County court, arrest, jail, DCI, corrections, or registry record must be directed to the government office that maintains it.

Effective date: July 23, 2026