                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PHYSICAL EVIDENCE RECOVERY KIT TRACKING SYSTEM (§ 19.2-11.13)

A. The Department shall maintain a statewide electronic tracking system for
physical evidence recovery kits. The Physical Evidence Recovery Kit Tracking
System (the System) will utilize an assigned unique identification number to
track each physical evidence recovery kit from its distribution as an
uncollected kit to the health care provider through to its destruction. The
Department shall ensure that each physical evidence recovery kit is assigned a
unique identification number.

B. The Department shall provide access to the System to health care providers,
law-enforcement agencies, the Division, and the Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner. All such entities and agencies shall be required to enter the
identification number and other information pertaining to the kits in the System
as required by the Department and to update the status and location of each kit
in the System whenever such status or location changes.

C. The health care provider shall inform the victim of sexual assault of the
unique identification number assigned to the physical evidence recovery kit
utilized by the health care provider during the forensic medical examination and
provide the victim with information regarding the System.

D. Records entered into the System are confidential and are not subject to
disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (&#xA7; 2.2-3700 et seq.).

HISTORY: 2019, c. 473.