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2018 SESSION
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.