A. Each school board shall receive reports of disappearances of any children living within the school division from local law enforcement pursuant to § 52-31.1.
B. Upon notification by a local law-enforcement agency of a child's disappearance, the principal of any school in which the child was enrolled at the time of the disappearance shall indicate, by mark, in the child's cumulative record that the child has been reported as missing. Upon notification by law enforcement that the child is located, the principal shall remove the mark from the record.
C. Upon receiving a request from any school or person for copies of the cumulative records and birth certificate of any child who has been reported by a local law-enforcement agency to be missing, the school being requested to transfer the records shall immediately notify the law-enforcement agency that provided the report to the school of the child's disappearance of the location of the school or person requesting the cumulative records and birth certificate of the child, without alerting the requestor of such report.
D. For the purposes of this section, a "mark" shall mean an electronic or other indicator that (i) is readily apparent on the student's record and (ii) will immediately alert any school personnel that the record is that of a missing child.
1990, c. 295; 2006, c. 295.
Structure Code of Virginia
§ 22.1-254.01. Certain students required to attend summer school or after-school sessions
§ 22.1-254.02. Students transferring from a public school
§ 22.1-254.1. Declaration of policy; requirements for home instruction of children
§ 22.1-254.2. Testing for high school equivalency; eligibility; guidelines
§ 22.1-255. Nonresident children
§ 22.1-259. Teachers to keep daily attendance records
§ 22.1-260. Reports of children enrolled and not enrolled; nonattendance
§ 22.1-261. Attendance officer to make list of children not enrolled; duties of attendance officer
§ 22.1-262. Complaint to court when parent fails to comply with law
§ 22.1-263. Violation constitutes misdemeanor
§ 22.1-264. Misdemeanor to make false statements as to age
§ 22.1-265. Inducing children to absent themselves
§ 22.1-266. Law-enforcement officers and truant children
§ 22.1-267. Proceedings against habitually absent child
§ 22.1-269.1. Alternative attendance programs
§ 22.1-270. Preschool physical examinations
§ 22.1-271.2. Immunization requirements
§ 22.1-271.4. Health requirements for home-instructed, exempted, and excused children
§ 22.1-271.5. Guidelines and policies and procedures on concussions in student-athletes
§ 22.1-271.6. School division policies and procedures on concussions in students
§ 22.1-271.7. Public middle school student-athletes; pre-participation physical examination
§ 22.1-271.8. Sudden cardiac arrest prevention in student-athletes
§ 22.1-272. Contagious and infectious diseases
§ 22.1-273. Vision and hearing of student to be tested; exceptions
§ 22.1-273.1. Annual screening for scoliosis
§ 22.1-273.2. Parent educational information regarding eating disorders
§ 22.1-273.3. Parent educational information regarding tobacco and nicotine vapor products
§ 22.1-273.4. Department of Education; guidance and resources; applied behavior analysis services
§ 22.1-274. School health services
§ 22.1-274.02. Certain memorandum of agreement required
§ 22.1-274.1. Criteria to identify toxic art materials; labeling; use in certain grades prohibited
§ 22.1-274.3. Policies regarding medication recommendations by school personnel
§ 22.1-274.4. Automated external defibrillators
§ 22.1-274.5. Topical sunscreen
§ 22.1-274.6. Seizure management and action plan; training
§ 22.1-275. Protective eye devices
§ 22.1-275.1. School health advisory board
§ 22.1-276.2. Removal of students from classes
§ 22.1-276.3. Ineligibility of students to compete in athletic competitions
§ 22.1-277. Suspensions and expulsions of students generally
§ 22.1-277.04. Short-term suspension; procedures; readmission
§ 22.1-277.05. Long-term suspensions; procedures; readmission
§ 22.1-277.06. Expulsions; procedures; readmission
§ 22.1-277.07. Expulsion of students under certain circumstances; exceptions
§ 22.1-277.07:1. Policies prohibiting possession of firearms
§ 22.1-277.08. Expulsion of students for certain drug offenses
§ 22.1-277.2:2. Alternative education program data
§ 22.1-279.1. Corporal punishment prohibited
§ 22.1-279.1:1. The use of seclusion and restraint in public schools; Board of Education regulations
§ 22.1-279.3. Parental responsibility and involvement requirements
§ 22.1-279.3:2. Public elementary and secondary school students; protective orders; notification
§ 22.1-279.3:3. Alternative school discipline process for certain incidents
§ 22.1-279.4. Information regarding prosecution for certain crimes
§ 22.1-279.7. Guidelines for student searches
§ 22.1-279.9. Development of programs to prevent crime and violence
§ 22.1-279.10. School resource officers; data
§ 22.1-280.2:1. Employment of school security officers
§ 22.1-280.2:2. Public School Security Equipment Grant Act of 2013
§ 22.1-280.2:3. School boards; safety and security personnel
§ 22.1-280.2:4. School boards; firearms on school property
§ 22.1-280.4. School board action regarding destruction of property
§ 22.1-287. Limitations on access to records
§ 22.1-287.01. Student information; release to federal government agencies
§ 22.1-287.02. Students' personally identifiable information
§ 22.1-287.03. Unique student identification numbers
§ 22.1-287.04. Uniformed services-connected students
§ 22.1-287.1. Directory information
§ 22.1-288.1. Notation in school records of missing children; local law-enforcement cooperation
§ 22.1-289.01. School service providers; school-affiliated entities; student personal information