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This law was first created in 1985. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 489 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. Unfortunately, the 1985 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 6 times. 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. Those modifications are as follows: in 1993, chapter 445; in 1997, chapter 413<\/a>; in 1998, chapter 872<\/a>; in 2001, chapter 497<\/a>; in 2008, chapters 823<\/a> and 833<\/a>; in 2014, chapter 460<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":63003,"section_number":"17.1-242","catch_line":"Custody of books, records, etc","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-242\/"},{"id":57189,"section_number":"17.1-294","catch_line":"Secure remote access to land records","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-294\/"}],"permalink":{"id":163081,"object_type":"law","relational_id":69099,"identifier":"17.1-225","token":"17.1\/2\/3\/17.1-225","url":"\/17.1-225\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/17.1-225\/","token":"17.1\/2\/3\/17.1-225","dublin_core":{"Title":"Remote access to nonconfidential court records","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 17.1-225","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The clerk of the circuit<\/span> court<\/span> of any county or city may provide remote access, including Internet access, to all nonconfidential court<\/span> records on an automated case management or other system maintained by his office and described in \u00a7 17.1-242<\/a>. The clerk shall be responsible for insuring that proper security measures are implemented and maintained to prevent remote access users from obtaining any data that are confidential under this Code and to prevent the modification or destruction of any records by remote access users. For purposes of this section, remote access users are those individuals who are not employees of the clerk’s office. Secure remote access to land records<\/span> shall be governed by \u00a7 17.1-294<\/a>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREMOTE ACCESS TO NONCONFIDENTIAL COURT RECORDS (\u00a7 17.1-225)\n\nThe clerk of the circuit court of any county or city may provide remote access,\nincluding Internet access, to all nonconfidential court records on an automated\ncase management or other system maintained by his office and described in \u00a7\n17.1-242. The clerk shall be responsible for insuring that proper security\nmeasures are implemented and maintained to prevent remote access users from\nobtaining any data that are confidential under this Code and to prevent the\nmodification or destruction of any records by remote access users. For purposes\nof this section, remote access users are those individuals who are not employees\nof the clerk’s office. Secure remote access to land records shall be\ngoverned by \u00a7 17.1-294.\n\nHISTORY: 1985, c. 489, \u00a7 17-59.2; 1993, c. 445; 1997, c. 413; 1998, c. 872;\n2001, c. 497; 2008, cc. 823, 833; 2014, c. 460.","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}}