                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISSEMINATION OF JUVENILE RECORD INFORMATION (§ 19.2-389.1)

Record information maintained in the Central Criminal Records Exchange pursuant
to the provisions of § 16.1-299 shall be disseminated only (i) to make the
determination as provided in §§ 18.2-308.2 and 18.2-308.2:2 of eligibility to
possess or purchase a firearm; (ii) to aid in the preparation of a pretrial
investigation report prepared by a local pretrial services agency established
pursuant to Article 5 (§ 19.2-152.2 et seq.) of Chapter 9, a presentence or
post-sentence investigation report pursuant to § 19.2-299 or in the preparation
of the discretionary sentencing guidelines worksheets pursuant to subsection C
of § 19.2-298.01; (iii) to aid local community-based probation services
agencies established pursuant to the Comprehensive Community Corrections Act for
Local-Responsible Offenders (§ 9.1-173 et seq.) with investigating or serving
adult local-responsible offenders and all court service units serving juvenile
delinquent offenders; (iv) for fingerprint comparison utilizing the fingerprints
maintained in the Automated Fingerprint Information System (AFIS) computer; (v)
to attorneys for the Commonwealth to secure information incidental to sentencing
and to attorneys for the Commonwealth and probation officers to prepare the
discretionary sentencing guidelines worksheets pursuant to subsection C of §
19.2-298.01; (vi) to any full-time or part-time employee of the State Police, a
police department or sheriff&#8217;s office that is a part of or administered by
the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, and who is responsible
for the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the penal,
traffic or highway laws of the Commonwealth, for purposes of the administration
of criminal justice as defined in § 9.1-101; (vii) to the Department of
Forensic Science to verify its authority to maintain the juvenile&#8217;s sample
in the DNA data bank pursuant to § 16.1-299.1; (viii) to the Office of the
Attorney General, for all criminal justice activities otherwise permitted and
for purposes of performing duties required by the Civil Commitment of Sexually
Violent Predators Act (§ 37.2-900 et seq.); (ix) to the Virginia Criminal
Sentencing Commission for research purposes; (x) to members of a threat
assessment team established by a school board pursuant to § 22.1-79.4, by a
public institution of higher education pursuant to § 23.1-805, or by a private
nonprofit institution of higher education, to aid in the assessment or
intervention with individuals whose behavior may present a threat to safety;
however, no member of a threat assessment team shall redisclose any juvenile
record information obtained pursuant to this section or otherwise use any record
of an individual beyond the purpose that such disclosure was made to the threat
assessment team; (xi) to any full-time or part-time employee of the State Police
or a police department or sheriff&#8217;s office that is a part of or
administered by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof for the
purpose of screening any person for full-time or part-time employment with the
State Police or a police department or sheriff&#8217;s office that is a part of
or administered by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof; (xii)
to the State Health Commissioner or his designee for the purpose of screening
any person who applies to be a volunteer with or an employee of an emergency
medical services agency as provided in § 32.1-111.5; and (xiii) to the chief
law-enforcement officer of a locality, or his designee who shall be an
individual employed as a public safety official of the locality, that has
adopted an ordinance in accordance with §§ 15.2-1503.1 and 19.2-389 for the
purpose of screening any person who applies to be a volunteer with or an
employee of an emergency medical services agency as provided in § 32.1-111.5.

HISTORY: 1993, cc. 468, 926; 1996, cc. 755, 870, 914; 2002, c. 701; 2003, cc.
107, 432; 2005, cc. 868, 881, 914; 2006, c. 502; 2007, c. 133; 2010, cc. 456,
524; 2011, c. 622; 2012, c. 386; 2016, c. 554; 2018, cc. 143, 148; 2021, Sp.
Sess. I, cc. 344, 345.