Iowa Admin. Code r. 205-7.1
"Notification" means mailing by regular mail or providing for hand delivery of appropriate information or papers. However, this notification procedure does not prohibit the board from also providing appropriate information to a registered victim by telephone, electronic mail, or other means.
"Parole interview" means an interview conducted by the board to consider an inmate's prospects for parole pursuant to Iowa Code section 906.5.
"Registered" means having provided the county attorney with the victim's written request for registration and current mailing address and telephone number, and having been approved by the county attorney.
"Victim " means a person who has suffered physical, emotional, or financial harm as the result of a public offense, other than a simple misdemeanor, committed in this state. The term also includes the immediate family members of a victim who died or was rendered incompetent as a result of the offense or who was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense.
"Violent crime " means a forcible felony, as defined in Iowa Code section 702.11, and includes any other felony or aggravated misdemeanor which involved the actual or threatened infliction of physical or emotional injury on one or more persons.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 205-7.1