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Agency approvals shall be given in writing by agency heads, and any such approvals shall be available to the public under the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.2-3700).C\n\nAll agencies shall immediately furnish their current employees copies of this section’s provisions, and shall furnish all new employees copies of this section concurrent with authorizing them to use agency computers.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":242772,"text":"For the purpose of this section:\n\t\t\t“Agency” means any agency, authority, board, department, division, commission, institution, public institution of higher education, bureau, or like governmental entity of the Commonwealth, except the Department of State Police.\n\t\t\t“Information infrastructure” means telecommunications, cable, and computer networks and includes the Internet, the World Wide Web, Usenet, bulletin board systems, on-line systems, and telephone networks.\n\t\t\t“Sexually explicit content” means (i) any description of or (ii) any picture, photograph, drawing, motion picture film, digital image or similar visual representation depicting sexual bestiality, a lewd exhibition of nudity, as nudity is defined in § 18.2-390, sexual excitement, sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse, as also defined in § 18.2-390, coprophilia, urophilia, or fetishism.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":242773,"text":"Except to the extent required in conjunction with a bona fide, agency-approved research project or other agency-approved undertaking, no agency employee shall utilize agency-owned or agency-leased computer equipment to access, download, print or store any information infrastructure files or services having sexually explicit content. 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This law was first created in 1996. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 382<\/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 1999, chapter 384<\/a>; in 2001, chapter 844<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":80691,"section_number":"18.2-390","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/18.2-390\/"},{"id":55569,"section_number":"2.2-3700","catch_line":"Short title; policy","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-3700\/"}],"permalink":{"id":175885,"object_type":"law","relational_id":66971,"identifier":"2.2-2827","token":"2.2\/I\/E\/28\/2.2-2827","url":"\/2.2-2827\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-2827\/","token":"2.2\/I\/E\/28\/2.2-2827","dublin_core":{"Title":"Restrictions on state employee access to information infrastructure","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-2827","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> For the purpose of this section:\n\t\t\t“Agency<\/span>” means any agency<\/span>, authority, board, department, division, commission, institution, public institution of higher education, bureau, or like governmental entity of the Commonwealth, except the Department of State Police.\n\t\t\t“Information infrastructure<\/span>” means telecommunications, cable, and computer networks and includes the Internet, the World Wide Web, Usenet, bulletin board systems, on-line systems, and telephone networks.\n\t\t\t“Sexually explicit content<\/span>” means (i) any description of or (ii) any picture, photograph, drawing, motion<\/span> picture film, digital image or similar visual representation depicting sexual bestiality, a lewd exhibition of nudity, as nudity is defined in § 18.2-390<\/a>, sexual excitement, sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse, as also defined in § 18.2-390<\/a>, coprophilia, urophilia, or fetishism. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> Except to the extent required in conjunction with a bona fide, agency<\/span>-approved research project or other agency<\/span>-approved undertaking, no agency<\/span> employee shall utilize agency<\/span>-owned or agency<\/span>-leased computer equipment to access, download, print or store any information infrastructure<\/span> files or services having sexually explicit content<\/span>. Agency<\/span> approvals shall be given in writing by agency<\/span> heads, and any such approvals shall be available to the public under the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.2-3700<\/a>). <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> All agencies shall immediately furnish their current employees copies of this section’s provisions, and shall furnish all new employees copies of this section concurrent with authorizing them to use agency<\/span> computers. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nRESTRICTIONS ON STATE EMPLOYEE ACCESS TO INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE (\u00a7\n2.2-2827)\n\nA. For the purpose of this section:\n\t\t\t“Agency” means any agency, authority, board, department,\ndivision, commission, institution, public institution of higher education,\nbureau, or like governmental entity of the Commonwealth, except the Department\nof State Police.\n\t\t\t“Information infrastructure” means telecommunications, cable, and\ncomputer networks and includes the Internet, the World Wide Web, Usenet,\nbulletin board systems, on-line systems, and telephone networks.\n\t\t\t“Sexually explicit content” means (i) any description of or (ii)\nany picture, photograph, drawing, motion picture film, digital image or similar\nvisual representation depicting sexual bestiality, a lewd exhibition of nudity,\nas nudity is defined in § 18.2-390, sexual excitement, sexual conduct or\nsadomasochistic abuse, as also defined in § 18.2-390, coprophilia,\nurophilia, or fetishism.\n\nB. Except to the extent required in conjunction with a bona fide,\nagency-approved research project or other agency-approved undertaking, no agency\nemployee shall utilize agency-owned or agency-leased computer equipment to\naccess, download, print or store any information infrastructure files or\nservices having sexually explicit content. Agency approvals shall be given in\nwriting by agency heads, and any such approvals shall be available to the public\nunder the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§\n2.2-3700).\n\nC. All agencies shall immediately furnish their current employees copies of this\nsection’s provisions, and shall furnish all new employees copies of this\nsection concurrent with authorizing them to use agency computers.\n\nHISTORY: 1996, c. 382, \u00a7\u00a7 2.1-804, 2.1-805, 2.1-806; 1999, c. 384; 2001, c.\n844.","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}}