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The information to be made available shall include the offender’s name; all aliases that he has used or under which he may have been known; the date and locality of the conviction and a brief description of the offense; his age, current address, and photograph; his current work address; the name of any institution of higher education at which he is currently enrolled; and such other information as the State Police may from time to time determine is necessary to preserve public safety, including but not limited to the fact that an individual is wanted for failing to register, reregister, or verify his registration information. The system shall be secure and not capable of being altered except by the State Police. The system shall be updated each business day with newly received registrations, reregistrations and verifications of registration information. 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This law was first created in 2003. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 584<\/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 4 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 2005, chapter 603<\/a>; in 2006, chapters 857<\/a> and 914<\/a>; in 2016, chapter 335<\/a>; in 2020, chapter 829<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":62575,"section_number":"2.2-3802","catch_line":"Systems to which chapter inapplicable","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-3802\/"},{"id":63939,"section_number":"9.1-912","catch_line":"Registry access and dissemination; fees","order_by":null,"url":"\/9.1-912\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":285549,"object_type":"law","relational_id":68514,"identifier":"9.1-913","token":"9.1\/9\/9.1-913","url":"\/9.1-913\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/9.1-913\/","token":"9.1\/9\/9.1-913","dublin_core":{"Title":"Public dissemination by means of the Internet","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 9.1-913","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The State Police shall develop and maintain a system for making certain Registry information on persons convicted of an offense<\/span> for which registration is required publicly available by means of the Internet. The information to be made available shall include the offender’s name; all aliases that he has used or under which he may have been known; the date and locality of the conviction<\/span> and a brief<\/span> description of the offense<\/span>; his age, current address, and photograph; his current work address; the name of any institution of higher education at which he is currently enrolled; and such other information as the State Police may from time to time determine is necessary to preserve public safety, including but not limited to the fact<\/span> that an individual is wanted for failing to register, reregister, or verify his registration information. The system shall be secure and not capable of being altered except by the State Police. The system shall be updated each business day with newly received registrations, reregistrations and verifications of registration information. The State Police shall remove all information that it knows to be inaccurate from the Internet system.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPUBLIC DISSEMINATION BY MEANS OF THE INTERNET (\u00a7 9.1-913)\n\nThe State Police shall develop and maintain a system for making certain Registry\ninformation on persons convicted of an offense for which registration is\nrequired publicly available by means of the Internet. The information to be made\navailable shall include the offender’s name; all aliases that he has used\nor under which he may have been known; the date and locality of the conviction\nand a brief description of the offense; his age, current address, and\nphotograph; his current work address; the name of any institution of higher\neducation at which he is currently enrolled; and such other information as the\nState Police may from time to time determine is necessary to preserve public\nsafety, including but not limited to the fact that an individual is wanted for\nfailing to register, reregister, or verify his registration information. The\nsystem shall be secure and not capable of being altered except by the State\nPolice. The system shall be updated each business day with newly received\nregistrations, reregistrations and verifications of registration information.\nThe State Police shall remove all information that it knows to be inaccurate\nfrom the Internet system.\n\nHISTORY: 2003, c. 584; 2005, c. 603; 2006, cc. 857, 914; 2016, c. 335; 2020, c.\n829.","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}}