Disclosure of sealed records; penalty
Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-392.14
in effectA. It is unlawful for any employee of any department, division, board, bureau, commission, branch, authority, or other agency created by the Commonwealth, or to which the Commonwealth is a party or any political subdivision thereof, having or acquiring access to sealed criminal history record information or a court record, including any records relating to an arrest, charge, or conviction, that was ordered to be sealed pursuant to § 19.2-392.7 , 19.2-392.8 , 19.2-392.10 , 19.2-392.11 , 19.2-392.12 , or 19.2-392.12:1 , or that was sealed without entry of a court order pursuant to § 19.2-392.6:1 or 19.2-392.17 , to disclose such record or any information from such record to another person, except in accordance with the purposes set forth in § 19.2-392.13 and pursuant to the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to § 9.1-128 and the procedures adopted pursuant to § 9.1-134 .
B. A clerk of the court shall not be in violation of this section if such clerk informs a person requesting access to a sealed court record that such court record has been sealed and can only be accessed pursuant to a court order.
C. Any person who knowingly and intentionally violates this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 524 , 542 ; 2023, cc. 554 , 555 ; 2025, cc. 634 , 671 .
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