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State Police officers shall submit the data to their commanding officers, who shall forward it to the Superintendent of State Police.C\n\nEach time a law-enforcement officer or State Police officer stops a driver of a motor vehicle, stops and frisks a person based on reasonable suspicion, or temporarily detains a person during any other investigatory stop, such officer shall collect the following data based on the officer’s observation or information provided to the officer by the driver: (i) the race, ethnicity, age, gender of the person stopped, and whether the person stopped spoke English; (ii) the reason for the stop; (iii) whether a notification from an automatic license plate recognition system, as defined in § 2.2-5517, was received for the motor vehicle prior to such stop, and if so, the specific reason for the notification as set forth in subsection D of § 2.2-5517; (iv) the location of the stop; (v) whether a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or whether any person was arrested; (vi) if a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or an arrest was made, the warning provided, violation charged, or crime charged; (vii) whether the vehicle or any person was searched; and (viii) whether the law-enforcement officer or State Police officer used physical force against any person and whether any person used physical force against any officers.D\n\nEach state and local law-enforcement agency shall collect the number of complaints the agency receives alleging the use of excessive force.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":206005,"text":"No State Police officer shall engage in bias-based profiling in the performance of his official duties.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":206006,"text":"State Police officers shall collect data pertaining to (i) all investigatory motor vehicle stops, (ii) all stop-and-frisks of a person based on reasonable suspicion, and (iii) all other investigatory detentions that do not result in an arrest or the issuance of a summons to be reported into the Community Policing Reporting Database. 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This law was first created in 2020. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 1165<\/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 2025, chapter 720<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":83479,"section_number":"15.2-1609.10","catch_line":"Prohibited practices; collection of data","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-1609.10\/"},{"id":67755,"section_number":"15.2-1722.1","catch_line":"Prohibited practices; collection of data","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-1722.1\/"},{"id":78370,"section_number":"2.2-3706.1","catch_line":"(Effective July 1, 2026) Disclosure of law-enforcement records; criminal incident information and certain criminal investigative files; limitations","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-3706.1\/"},{"id":57023,"section_number":"52-30.3","catch_line":"Community Policing Reporting Database established","order_by":null,"url":"\/52-30.3\/"},{"id":56395,"section_number":"52-30.4","catch_line":"Reporting of state and local law-enforcement agencies required","order_by":null,"url":"\/52-30.4\/"},{"id":81786,"section_number":"9.1-192","catch_line":"Community Policing Reporting Database; annual report","order_by":null,"url":"\/9.1-192\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":58641,"section_number":"2.2-5517","catch_line":"Use of automatic license plate recognition systems by law-enforcement agencies","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-5517\/"}],"permalink":{"id":237423,"object_type":"law","relational_id":56244,"identifier":"52-30.2","token":"52\/6.1\/52-30.2","url":"\/52-30.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/52-30.2\/","token":"52\/6.1\/52-30.2","dublin_core":{"Title":"(Effective January 1, 2026) Prohibited practices; collection of data","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 52-30.2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> No State Police officer shall engage in bias-based profiling in the performance of his official duties. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> State Police officers shall collect data pertaining to (i) all investigatory motor vehicle stops, (ii) all stop-and-frisks of a person based on reasonable suspicion, and (iii) all other investigatory detentions that do not result in an arrest<\/span> or the issuance of a summons<\/span> to be reported into the Community Policing Reporting Database. State Police officers shall submit the data to their commanding officers, who shall forward it to the Superintendent of State Police. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> Each time a law<\/span>-enforcement officer or State Police officer stops a driver of a motor vehicle, stops and frisks a person based on reasonable suspicion, or temporarily detains<\/span> a person during any other investigatory stop, such officer shall collect the following data based on the officer’s observation or information provided to the officer by the driver: (i) the race, ethnicity, age, gender of the person stopped, and whether the person stopped spoke English; (ii) the reason for the stop; (iii) whether a notification from an automatic license plate recognition system, as defined in § 2.2-5517<\/a>, was received for the motor vehicle prior to such stop, and if so, the specific reason for the notification as set forth in subsection D of § 2.2-5517<\/a>; (iv) the location of the stop; (v) whether a warning, written citation<\/span>, or summons<\/span> was issued or whether any person was arrested; (vi) if a warning, written citation<\/span>, or summons<\/span> was issued or an arrest<\/span> was made, the warning provided, violation charged, or crime<\/span> charged; (vii) whether the vehicle or any person was searched; and (viii) whether the law<\/span>-enforcement officer or State Police officer used physical force against any person and whether any person used physical force against any officers. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

D.<\/span> Each state and local law<\/span>-enforcement agency shall collect the number of complaints the agency receives alleging the use of excessive force. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\n(EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2026) PROHIBITED PRACTICES; COLLECTION OF DATA (\u00a7\n52-30.2)\n\nA. No State Police officer shall engage in bias-based profiling in the\nperformance of his official duties.\n\nB. State Police officers shall collect data pertaining to (i) all investigatory\nmotor vehicle stops, (ii) all stop-and-frisks of a person based on reasonable\nsuspicion, and (iii) all other investigatory detentions that do not result in an\narrest or the issuance of a summons to be reported into the Community Policing\nReporting Database. State Police officers shall submit the data to their\ncommanding officers, who shall forward it to the Superintendent of State Police.\n\nC. Each time a law-enforcement officer or State Police officer stops a driver of\na motor vehicle, stops and frisks a person based on reasonable suspicion, or\ntemporarily detains a person during any other investigatory stop, such officer\nshall collect the following data based on the officer’s observation or\ninformation provided to the officer by the driver: (i) the race, ethnicity, age,\ngender of the person stopped, and whether the person stopped spoke English; (ii)\nthe reason for the stop; (iii) whether a notification from an automatic license\nplate recognition system, as defined in § 2.2-5517, was received for the\nmotor vehicle prior to such stop, and if so, the specific reason for the\nnotification as set forth in subsection D of § 2.2-5517; (iv) the location\nof the stop; (v) whether a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or\nwhether any person was arrested; (vi) if a warning, written citation, or summons\nwas issued or an arrest was made, the warning provided, violation charged, or\ncrime charged; (vii) whether the vehicle or any person was searched; and (viii)\nwhether the law-enforcement officer or State Police officer used physical force\nagainst any person and whether any person used physical force against any\nofficers.\n\nD. Each state and local law-enforcement agency shall collect the number of\ncomplaints the agency receives alleging the use of excessive force.\n\nHISTORY: 2020, c. 1165; 2020, Sp. Sess. I, c. 37; 2025, c. 720.","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}}