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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63033</law_id><section_number>52-8.6</section_number><catch_line>Criminal street gang reporting</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="52">Police (State)</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">Department of State Police</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When it is determined, by a state or local <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement agency, regional jail, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, or a regional multijurisdictional <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement task force, that a person is a member of a criminal street gang, as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/18.2-46.1/">18.2-46.1</a> by means of (i) an admission of membership in a gang; (ii) an observation by a <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer that a person frequents a known gang area, associates with known gang members and demonstrates gang style of dress, tattoos, hand signals, or symbols; or (iii) being arrested on more than one occasion with known gang members for <span class="dictionary">offenses</span> consistent with gang activities, the agency shall enter the person&#x2019;s name and other appropriate gang-related information required by the Department of State Police into the information system known as the Organized Criminal Gang File of the Virginia Criminal Information Network (VCIN), established and maintained by the Department pursuant to Chapter 2 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Establishment of State Police communication system" href="/52-12/">52-12</a> et seq.) of this title, and the Violent Criminal Gang File of the National <span class="dictionary">Crime</span> Information Center (NCIC), maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The entry shall be made as soon as practicable after determining that a person is a member of an organized criminal gang. All records contained in these information systems shall be entered, retained, and validated in accordance with established VCIN and NCIC policies.</p></section></text><history>2005, c. 843; 2010, cc. 367, 472.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
