                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

NOTATION IN SCHOOL RECORDS OF MISSING CHILDREN; LOCAL LAW-ENFORCEMENT
COOPERATION (§ 22.1-288.1)

A. Each school board shall receive reports of disappearances of any children
living within the school division from local law enforcement pursuant to &#xA7;
52-31.1.

B. Upon notification by a local law-enforcement agency of a child&#8217;s
disappearance, the principal of any school in which the child was enrolled at
the time of the disappearance shall indicate, by mark, in the child&#8217;s
cumulative record that the child has been reported as missing. Upon notification
by law enforcement that the child is located, the principal shall remove the
mark from the record.

C. Upon receiving a request from any school or person for copies of the
cumulative records and birth certificate of any child who has been reported by a
local law-enforcement agency to be missing, the school being requested to
transfer the records shall immediately notify the law-enforcement agency that
provided the report to the school of the child&#8217;s disappearance of the
location of the school or person requesting the cumulative records and birth
certificate of the child, without alerting the requestor of such report.

D. For the purposes of this section, a &#8220;mark&#8221; shall mean an
electronic or other indicator that (i) is readily apparent on the
student&#8217;s record and (ii) will immediately alert any school personnel that
the record is that of a missing child.

HISTORY: 1990, c. 295; 2006, c. 295.