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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
21101516DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 19.2-387.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 19.2-387.3. Substantial Risk Order Registry; maintenance; access.
A. The Department of State Police shall keep and maintain a
computerized Substantial Risk Order Registry (the Registry) for the entry of
orders issued pursuant to § 19.2-152.13 or 19.2-152.14. The purpose of the
Registry shall be to assist the efforts of law-enforcement agencies to protect
their communities and their citizens, and to monitor and evaluate the
administration and effectiveness of §§ 19.2-152.13 and 19.2-152.14. The
Department of State Police shall make the Registry information available, upon
request, to criminal justice agencies, including local law-enforcement
agencies, through the Virginia Criminal Information Network. The Department
of State Police [ shall may ] , for the purpose of
(i) monitoring and evaluating the impact of these provisions on public safety
and (ii) assessing the fairness of the administration of these provisions, make
the Registry information available upon request to institutions of higher
education and other research organizations or institutions in the Commonwealth.
The [ information from the Registry may be combined with other
data held by the Commonwealth to enable the ] Department of State
Police [ to remove from the Registry the name and all personal
identifying information of any person, and to release such information to
research organizations in the Commonwealth shall remove the names
and other personal identifying information from the data before it is released
to the institution of higher education or research organization or other
institution ] . Registry information provided under this section
shall be used only for the purposes of the administration of criminal justice
as defined in § 9.1-101, except as otherwise provided in this subsection.
B. No liability shall be imposed upon any law-enforcement official who disseminates information or fails to disseminate information in good faith compliance with the requirements of this section, but this provision shall not be construed to grant immunity for gross negligence or willful misconduct.