                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

(EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2026) PROHIBITED PRACTICES; COLLECTION OF DATA (§
52-30.2)

A. No State Police officer shall engage in bias-based profiling in the
performance of his official duties.

B. State Police officers 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 to be reported into the Community Policing
Reporting Database. State Police officers shall submit the data to their
commanding officers, who shall forward it to the Superintendent of State Police.

C. Each time a law-enforcement officer or State Police officer stops a driver of
a motor vehicle, stops and frisks a person based on reasonable suspicion, or
temporarily detains a person during any other investigatory stop, such officer
shall collect the following data based on the officer&#8217;s observation or
information provided to the officer by the driver: (i) the race, ethnicity, age,
gender of the person stopped, and whether the person stopped spoke English; (ii)
the reason for the stop; (iii) whether a notification from an automatic license
plate recognition system, as defined in &#xA7; 2.2-5517, was received for the
motor vehicle prior to such stop, and if so, the specific reason for the
notification as set forth in subsection D of &#xA7; 2.2-5517; (iv) the location
of the stop; (v) whether a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or
whether any person was arrested; (vi) if a warning, written citation, or summons
was issued or an arrest was made, the warning provided, violation charged, or
crime charged; (vii) whether the vehicle or any person was searched; and (viii)
whether the law-enforcement officer or State Police officer used physical force
against any person and whether any person used physical force against any
officers.

D. Each state and local law-enforcement agency shall collect the number of
complaints the agency receives alleging the use of excessive force.

HISTORY: 2020, c. 1165; 2020, Sp. Sess. I, c. 37; 2025, c. 720.