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2016 SESSION

16102195D
HOUSE BILL NO. 839
Offered January 13, 2016
Prefiled January 12, 2016
A BILL to direct the State Library Board to revise retention schedules for surveillance videos, including visual or audiovisual recordings by license plate readers and body-worn camera systems utilized by state and local law-enforcement officers.
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Patron-- McClellan
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Referred to Committee on General Laws
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the State Library Board is directed to revise the retention schedule for surveillance videos, including visual or audiovisual recordings by license plate readers and body-worn camera systems utilized by state and local law-enforcement officers, in order that such visual or audiovisual recordings are retained for at least 60 days, regardless of whether such recordings pertain to an identified criminal investigation.