SB567: Juvenile record information; dissemination thereof to Criminal Sentencing Commission.
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 of this
title, 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 programs 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; and
(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.); and
(ix) to the Virginia Criminal Sentencing
Commission for research purposes.