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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83392</law_id><section_number>19.2-11.10</section_number><catch_line>Expungement of DNA profile</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="19.2">Criminal Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1.2">Physical Evidence Recovery Kits and Trace Evidence Collection Kits</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> receives written confirmation from a <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement agency</span> or attorney for the Commonwealth that a DNA profile that has been uploaded pursuant to this chapter into any local, state, or national DNA data bank was determined not to be connected to a criminal <span class="dictionary">offense</span> or that the DNA profile is of an individual who is not the putative perpetrator, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall <span class="dictionary">expunge</span> the DNA profile from the DNA data bank.
		The detention, <span class="dictionary">arrest</span>, or <span class="dictionary">conviction</span> of a person based upon a data bank match or data bank information is not invalidated if it is determined that the sample was obtained, placed, or retained in the data bank in good faith pursuant to this chapter, and <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> based upon or derived from the DNA record shall not be excluded by a <span class="dictionary">court</span>.</p></section></text><history>2016, cc. 332, 698.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
