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The purpose of the Registry shall be to assist the efforts of law-enforcement agencies statewide to protect their communities from repeat child pornographers and to protect children from becoming victims of criminal offenders by aiding in identifying victims and perpetrators. Criminal justice agencies, including law-enforcement agencies, may request of the State Police a search and comparison of child pornography images contained within the Registry with those images obtained by criminal justice agencies during the course of official investigations.B\n\nThe Registry shall include hash values or other applicable identification method of all known or suspected “child pornography,” as that term is defined in subsection A of § 18.2-374.1, obtained during the course of a criminal investigation, or presented as evidence and used in any conviction for any offense enumerated in §§ 18.2-374.1 and 18.2-374.1:1.C\n\nRegistry information provided under this section shall be used for the purposes of the administration of criminal justice, for victim identification, or for the protection of the public in general and children in particular. Use of the information or the images contained therein for purposes not authorized by this section is prohibited and a willful violation of this section with the intent to harass or intimidate another is a Class 6 felony.D\n\nThe Virginia Criminal Information Network and any form or document used by the Department of State Police to disseminate information from the Registry shall provide notice that any unauthorized possession, use, or dissemination of the information or images is a crime punishable as a Class 6 felony.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":257149,"text":"The Office of the Attorney General, in cooperation with the Department of State Police, shall keep and maintain a Child Pornography Registry (the Registry) to be located within the State Police, separate and apart from all other records maintained by either department. The purpose of the Registry shall be to assist the efforts of law-enforcement agencies statewide to protect their communities from repeat child pornographers and to protect children from becoming victims of criminal offenders by aiding in identifying victims and perpetrators. Criminal justice agencies, including law-enforcement agencies, may request of the State Police a search and comparison of child pornography images contained within the Registry with those images obtained by criminal justice agencies during the course of official investigations.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":257150,"text":"The Registry shall include hash values or other applicable identification method of all known or suspected “child pornography,” as that term is defined in subsection A of § 18.2-374.1, obtained during the course of a criminal investigation, or presented as evidence and used in any conviction for any offense enumerated in §§ 18.2-374.1 and 18.2-374.1:1.","type":"section","prefixes":["B"],"prefix":"B","entire_prefix":"B","prefix_anchor":"B","level":1,"prior_prefix":"A","next_prefix":"C"},"2":{"id":257151,"text":"Registry information provided under this section shall be used for the purposes of the administration of criminal justice, for victim identification, or for the protection of the public in general and children in particular. 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This law was first created in 2003. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 935<\/a> and 938<\/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 2 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 2019, chapters 3<\/a> and 42<\/a>; in 2023, chapters 28<\/a> and 29<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":61326,"section_number":"18.2-374.1","catch_line":"Production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography; presumption as to age","order_by":null,"url":"\/18.2-374.1\/"}],"permalink":{"id":170475,"object_type":"law","relational_id":71334,"identifier":"19.2-390.3","token":"19.2\/23\/19.2-390.3","url":"\/19.2-390.3\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/19.2-390.3\/","token":"19.2\/23\/19.2-390.3","dublin_core":{"Title":"Child Pornography Registry; maintenance; access; required information","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 19.2-390.3","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> The Office of the Attorney General<\/span>, in cooperation with the Department of State Police, shall keep and maintain a Child Pornography Registry (the Registry) to be located within the State Police, separate and apart from all other records maintained by either department. The purpose of the Registry shall be to assist the efforts of law<\/span>-enforcement agencies statewide to protect their communities from repeat child pornographers and to protect children from becoming victims of criminal offenders by aiding in identifying victims and perpetrators. Criminal justice agencies, including law<\/span>-enforcement agencies, may request of the State Police a search and comparison of child pornography images contained within the Registry with those images obtained by criminal justice agencies during the course of official investigations. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> The Registry shall include hash values or other applicable identification method of all known or suspected “child pornography,” as that term is defined in subsection A of § 18.2-374.1<\/a>, obtained during the course of a criminal investigation, or presented as evidence<\/span> and used in any conviction<\/span> for any offense<\/span> enumerated in §§ 18.2-374.1<\/a> and 18.2-374.1:1<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> Registry information provided under this section shall be used for the purposes of the administration of criminal justice, for victim identification, or for the protection of the public in general and children in particular. Use of the information or the images contained therein for purposes not authorized by this section is prohibited and a willful violation of this section with the intent<\/span> to harass or intimidate another is a Class 6 felony<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

D.<\/span> The Virginia Criminal Information Network and any form or document used by the Department of State Police to disseminate information from the Registry shall provide notice that any unauthorized possession<\/span>, use, or dissemination of the information or images is a crime<\/span> punishable as a Class 6 felony<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCHILD PORNOGRAPHY REGISTRY; MAINTENANCE; ACCESS; REQUIRED INFORMATION (\u00a7\n19.2-390.3)\n\nA. The Office of the Attorney General, in cooperation with the Department of\nState Police, shall keep and maintain a Child Pornography Registry (the\nRegistry) to be located within the State Police, separate and apart from all\nother records maintained by either department. The purpose of the Registry shall\nbe to assist the efforts of law-enforcement agencies statewide to protect their\ncommunities from repeat child pornographers and to protect children from\nbecoming victims of criminal offenders by aiding in identifying victims and\nperpetrators. Criminal justice agencies, including law-enforcement agencies, may\nrequest of the State Police a search and comparison of child pornography images\ncontained within the Registry with those images obtained by criminal justice\nagencies during the course of official investigations.\n\nB. The Registry shall include hash values or other applicable identification\nmethod of all known or suspected “child pornography,” as that term\nis defined in subsection A of § 18.2-374.1, obtained during the course of a\ncriminal investigation, or presented as evidence and used in any conviction for\nany offense enumerated in §§ 18.2-374.1 and 18.2-374.1:1.\n\nC. Registry information provided under this section shall be used for the\npurposes of the administration of criminal justice, for victim identification,\nor for the protection of the public in general and children in particular. Use\nof the information or the images contained therein for purposes not authorized\nby this section is prohibited and a willful violation of this section with the\nintent to harass or intimidate another is a Class 6 felony.\n\nD. The Virginia Criminal Information Network and any form or document used by\nthe Department of State Police to disseminate information from the Registry\nshall provide notice that any unauthorized possession, use, or dissemination of\nthe information or images is a crime punishable as a Class 6 felony.\n\nHISTORY: 2003, cc. 935, 938; 2019, cc. 3, 42; 2023, cc. 28, 29.","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}}