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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75691</law_id><section_number>22.1-279.10</section_number><catch_line>School resource officers; data</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>9.1-184</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="14">Pupils</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Discipline</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Criminal Justice Services, in coordination with the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Education and the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Juvenile Justice, shall annually collect, report, and publish on its website data on the use of force against students, including the use of chemical, mechanical, or other restraints and instances of seclusion; detentions of students; <span class="dictionary">arrests</span> of students; student referrals to <span class="dictionary">court</span> or <span class="dictionary">court</span> service units; and other disciplinary actions by school resource officers involving students. Such data shall (i) be published in a manner that protects the identities of students and (ii) be disaggregated by local school division and by student age, grade, race, ethnicity, gender, and disability, if such data is available.</p></section></text><history>2020, cc. 169, 1039.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
