Bill Text: VA SB109 | 2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Dissemination of juvenile record information; emergency medical services agency applicants.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2018-03-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0148) [SB109 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-SB109-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §19.2-389.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§19.2-389.1. Dissemination of juvenile record information.
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 §19.2-264.5 or
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'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'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;
and (xi) to any full-time or part-time employee of the State Police or a
police department or sheriff'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'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.
