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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84172</law_id><section_number>53.1-5.2</section_number><catch_line>Compilation of certain data for redistricting purposes</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="53.1">Prisons and Other Methods of Correction</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">Administration Generally</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">State Board of Local and Regional Jails</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall direct the sheriffs of all local jails and the jail superintendents of all regional jails to provide to it, no later than May 1 of any year in which the decennial census is taken, information regarding each person incarcerated in a local or regional jail on April 1 of that year. Such information shall include, for each person incarcerated, (i) his residential street address at the time of incarceration, or other legal residence, if known; (ii) his race, his ethnicity as identified by him, and whether he is 18 years of age or older; and (iii) the street address of the correctional facility in which he was incarcerated on April 1 of that year. Upon receipt of such information, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall assign to each person a unique identifier, other than his name or offender identification number. <a id="paragraph-301687" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/53.1-5.2/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Population data; reallocation of prison populations" href="/24.2-314/">24.2-314</a>, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall provide to the Division of Legislative Services, not later than July 1 of any year in which the decennial census is taken and in a format specified by the Division of Legislative Services, the information specified in subsection A, including the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>-assigned unique identifier. <a id="paragraph-301688" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/53.1-5.2/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2020, cc. 1229, 1265.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
