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Upon receipt of a critically missing adult report by any police or sheriff’s department, the department shall immediately, but in all cases within two hours of receiving the report, enter identifying and descriptive data about the critically missing adult into the Virginia Criminal Information Network and the National Crime Information Center Systems, forward the report to the Department of State Police, notify all other law-enforcement agencies in the area, and initiate an investigation of the case.B\n\nFor purposes of this section:\n\t\t\t“Critically missing adult” means any missing adult, including an adult who has a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or mental illness as those terms are defined in § 37.2-100, 18 years of age or older whose disappearance indicates a credible threat to the health and safety of the adult as determined by a law-enforcement agency and under such other circumstances as deemed appropriate after consideration of all known circumstances.\n\t\t\t“Critically missing adult report” means a report prepared in a format prescribed by the Superintendent of State Police for use by law-enforcement agencies to report critically missing adult information, including a photograph, to the Department of State Police.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":248396,"text":"No police or sheriff’s department shall establish or maintain any policy that requires the observance of any waiting period before accepting a critically missing adult report. 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This law was first created in 2015. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 205<\/a> and 223<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2022, chapters 394<\/a> and 395<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":56012,"section_number":"19.2-70.3","catch_line":"Obtaining records concerning electronic communication service or remote computing service","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-70.3\/"},{"id":82789,"section_number":"52-34.12","catch_line":"Activation of Critically Missing Adult Alert Program upon an incident of a critically missing adult","order_by":null,"url":"\/52-34.12\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":76036,"section_number":"37.2-100","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/37.2-100\/"}],"permalink":{"id":153851,"object_type":"law","relational_id":68631,"identifier":"15.2-1718.2","token":"15.2\/II\/17\/1\/15.2-1718.2","url":"\/15.2-1718.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-1718.2\/","token":"15.2\/II\/17\/1\/15.2-1718.2","dublin_core":{"Title":"Receipt of critically missing adult reports","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-1718.2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> No police or sheriff’s department shall establish or maintain any policy that requires the observance of any waiting period before accepting a critically missing adult<\/span> report<\/span>. Upon receipt of a critically missing adult<\/span> report<\/span> by any police or sheriff’s department, the department shall immediately, but in all cases within two hours of receiving the report, enter identifying and descriptive data about the critically missing adult<\/span> into the Virginia Criminal Information Network and the National Crime<\/span> Information Center Systems, forward the report to the Department of State Police, notify all other law<\/span>-enforcement agencies in the area, and initiate an investigation of the case. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> For purposes of this section:\n\t\t\t“Critically missing adult<\/span>” means any missing adult, including an adult who has a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or mental illness as those terms are defined in § 37.2-100<\/a>, 18 years of age or older whose disappearance indicates a credible threat to the health and safety of the adult as determined by a law<\/span>-enforcement agency and under such other circumstances as deemed appropriate after consideration of all known circumstances.\n\t\t\t“Critically missing adult<\/span> report<\/span>” means a report prepared in a format prescribed by the Superintendent of State Police for use by law<\/span>-enforcement agencies to report critically missing adult<\/span> information, including a photograph, to the Department of State Police. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nRECEIPT OF CRITICALLY MISSING ADULT REPORTS (\u00a7 15.2-1718.2)\n\nA. No police or sheriff’s department shall establish or maintain any\npolicy that requires the observance of any waiting period before accepting a\ncritically missing adult report. Upon receipt of a critically missing adult\nreport by any police or sheriff’s department, the department shall\nimmediately, but in all cases within two hours of receiving the report, enter\nidentifying and descriptive data about the critically missing adult into the\nVirginia Criminal Information Network and the National Crime Information Center\nSystems, forward the report to the Department of State Police, notify all other\nlaw-enforcement agencies in the area, and initiate an investigation of the case.\n\nB. For purposes of this section:\n\t\t\t“Critically missing adult” means any missing adult, including an\nadult who has a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or mental\nillness as those terms are defined in § 37.2-100, 18 years of age or older\nwhose disappearance indicates a credible threat to the health and safety of the\nadult as determined by a law-enforcement agency and under such other\ncircumstances as deemed appropriate after consideration of all known\ncircumstances.\n\t\t\t“Critically missing adult report” means a report prepared in a\nformat prescribed by the Superintendent of State Police for use by\nlaw-enforcement agencies to report critically missing adult information,\nincluding a photograph, to the Department of State Police.\n\nHISTORY: 2015, cc. 205, 223; 2022, cc. 394, 395.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}