                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TRANSFER OF INFORMATION UPON COMMITMENT; INFORMATION TO BE FURNISHED BY AND TO
LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS (§ 16.1-287)

Whenever the court commits a child to the Department of Juvenile Justice, or to
any other institution or agency, it shall transmit with the order of commitment
copies of the clinical reports, predisposition study and other information it
has pertinent to the care and treatment of the child. The Department shall not
be responsible for any such committed child until it has received the court
order and the information concerning the child. All local school boards shall be
required to furnish the Department promptly with any information from their
files that the Department deems to be necessary in the classification,
evaluation, placement or treatment of any child committed to the Department. The
Department of Juvenile Justice&#8217;s Education Division, pursuant to §
22.1-289, shall likewise be required to furnish local school boards academic,
and career and technical education and related achievement information promptly
from its files that the local school board may deem necessary when children are
returned to the community from the Department&#8217;s care. The Department and
other institutions or agencies shall give to the court such information
concerning the child as the court at any time requires. All such information
shall be treated as confidential.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 16.1-181; 1956, c. 555; 1974, cc. 44, 45, 266; 1977, c.
559; 1981, c. 487; 1989, c. 733; 2001, c. 483; 2005, c. 154; 2012, cc. 803, 835.