How To Register For Iowavine

Iowa Victim Information & Notification Everyday (IowaVINE)

Iowa Victim Data & Notification Everyday (IowaVINE) is a free and bearding telephone service that provides victims of law-breaking two important features: information and notification.

Across the country, crime victims and other concerned parties apply IowaVINE for admission to timely and reliable information about the custody status of an offender. Victims can receive automated notification past telephone, the Net, or electronic mail 24 hours a day, seven days a calendar week, 365 days a year. Past phone, victims tin always contact a live operator who is trained in victim services.

How To Annals

To register for IowaVINE notifications click here.

DO NOT depend solely on IowaVINE for protection from the offender. If you experience yous may be at chance, contact your local law enforcement bureau or your local victim service program for immediate support.

IowaVINE Facts

IowaVINE is a crime victim data and notification organisation that tracks criminals who have been arrested by law enforcement or bedevilled by the justice arrangement. The service uses reckoner and phone engineering science to automatically notify crime victims and interested parties about changes in an offender's custody status. IowaVINE provides information about an offender's apprehension, transfer, release, escape, or death.
IowaVINE is a free, 24-60 minutes, confidential, computer-based service that provides criminal offence victim information and notification via phone and/or calculator and/or text message.
IowaVINE is anonymous. The offender will not know you are registered with IowaVINE.
IowaVINE was created to provide information, notification, and peace of mind for crime victims.
IowaVINE is also available to anyone who seeks public information well-nigh the custody and location of an offender.
IowaVINE is funded by the Statewide Automated Victim Data (SAVIN) grant program operated by the U.S. Agency of Justice Assistance, and by the Compensation Fund, a fund comprised entirely of fines and penalties paid by convicted criminals.

How Does IowaVINE Provide Notifications?

Y'all can register your telephone number and/or email address with IowaVINE. To register your phone number, call the IowaVINE toll-costless line at 1-888-7-IAVINE, or go to www.vinelink.com. If you wish to register your e-mail address, you must go to www.vinelink.com.

You may register to receive notification on multiple phone numbers, including a cell phone. You will choose a personal identification number (Pivot) for telephone notification. When IowaVINE calls the phone number(s) that you provide, you must enter your Pin to confirm that you accept received the notification. IowaVINE will go along calling y'all until you enter your PIN, or until 48 hours have passed (have your Pin available then you lot can stop the notification calls). If the telephone call is answered by vox mail or a machine, IowaVINE will leave a message and keep calling every two hours until you enter your PIN or until 48 hours take passed.

How Else Can I Go Information from IowaVINE?

You can call IowaVINE at 1-888-vii-IAVINE (one-888-742-8463) and receive information through an automated data system or yous can call that number then press zero to speak with a trained IowaVINE operator. Y'all can go to www.vinelink.com to get offender custody status and location information online.

Update Registration Information vs. Re-Registration

If your telephone number or email address changes, remember to update your registration information. You can update your registration data past visiting www.vinelink.com and clicking on "Update Registration" (do not re-register with your new data). If you alter telephone numbers, please delete your erstwhile telephone number from the IowaVINE system.

An offender in a canton jail will receive a new identification number if transferred to an Iowa Department of Corrections prison or another county jail. You must reregister with IowaVINE once the offender is moved to a different or new facility. The IowaVINE system will guide you through the re-registration process.

IowaVINE Links

To view a VINE tutorial video, click here.
Click hither to see an IowaVINE statewide condition map. The IowaVINE operational status of each county jail is displayed on the map.
Click here to display and impress an IowaVINE fact canvas.
Click here to display a quick reference guide on how to register for IowaVINE.
Click for a sample IowaVINE Brochure in English or Castilian. To lodge brochures, e-mail CVAD info.

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Click button on left to register for IowaVINE or for custody condition updates.

Iowa's Victim Rights Law

Iowa Code section 915.xvi provides that a county sheriff or other person in charge of the local jail or detention facility shall notify a registered victim of the following:

The offender's release from custody on bail and the terms or conditions of the release.
The offender's last release from local custody.
The offender's escape from custody.
The offender's transfer from local custody to custody in another locality.

Contact Data
Part of the Attorney General of Iowa
Crime Victim Assistance Partitioning
Lucas Land Office Building
321 East 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319

Phone: 515-281-5044
Cost-Free: 800-373-5044
FAX: 515-281-8199

E-mail: Victim Rights Coordinator: Adriana Slaughter