                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CRIMINAL STREET GANG REPORTING (§ 52-8.6)

When it is determined, by a state or local law-enforcement agency, regional
jail, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, or a
regional multijurisdictional law-enforcement task force, that a person is a
member of a criminal street gang, as defined in § 18.2-46.1 by means of (i) an
admission of membership in a gang; (ii) an observation by a law-enforcement
officer that a person frequents a known gang area, associates with known gang
members and demonstrates gang style of dress, tattoos, hand signals, or symbols;
or (iii) being arrested on more than one occasion with known gang members for
offenses consistent with gang activities, the agency shall enter the
person&#8217;s name and other appropriate gang-related information required by
the Department of State Police into the information system known as the
Organized Criminal Gang File of the Virginia Criminal Information Network
(VCIN), established and maintained by the Department pursuant to Chapter 2 (§
52-12 et seq.) of this title, and the Violent Criminal Gang File of the National
Crime Information Center (NCIC), maintained by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. The entry shall be made as soon as practicable after determining
that a person is a member of an organized criminal gang. All records contained
in these information systems shall be entered, retained, and validated in
accordance with established VCIN and NCIC policies.

HISTORY: 2005, c. 843; 2010, cc. 367, 472.