                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISCLOSURE OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE RECORDS AND REPORTS; PENALTY (§ 52-8.3)

Any person employed by a law-enforcement agency or other governmental agency
within the Commonwealth who has or has had access in an official capacity to an
official written record or report submitted in confidence to the Department of
State Police relating to an ongoing criminal investigation, and who uses or
knowingly permits another to use such record or report for any purpose not
consistent with the record exclusions permitted in the Virginia Freedom of
Information Act (§ 2.2-3700 et seq.), or other provision of state law, shall be
guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
		The provisions of this section shall not be construed to impede or prohibit
full access to information concerning the existence of any criminal
investigation or to other verbal disclosures permitted by state police operating
procedures.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 238; 1999, cc. 703, 726; 2004, c. 690.