                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROHIBITED PRACTICES; COLLECTION OF DATA (§ 15.2-1609.10)

A. No sheriff or deputy sheriff shall engage in bias-based profiling as defined
in &#xA7; 52-30.1 in the performance of his official duties.

B. The sheriff of every locality shall collect data pertaining to (i) all
investigatory motor vehicle stops, (ii) all stop-and-frisks of a person based on
reasonable suspicion, and (iii) all other investigatory detentions that do not
result in an arrest or the issuance of a summons pursuant to &#xA7; 52-30.2 and
report such data to the Department of State Police for inclusion in the
Community Policing Reporting Database established pursuant to &#xA7; 52-30.3.
The sheriff of the locality shall be responsible for forwarding the data to the
Superintendent of State Police.

C. The sheriff shall post the data that has been forwarded for inclusion in the
Community Policing Reporting Database on a website that is maintained by the
sheriff or on any other website on which the sheriff generally posts information
and that is available to the public or that clearly describes how the public may
access such data.

HISTORY: 2020, c. 1165; 2020, Sp. Sess. I, c. 37.