The Mid-Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center opposes SB 1377.
This bill allows police and sheriff departments to release current information on juvenile arrests to law-enforcement agencies in other states. Currently, these departments are allowed to release these records only to one another and to state and federal law enforcement agencies.
There are serious privacy concerns in allowing for the sharing of juvenile arrest records with out of state agencies. Virginia has no jurisdiction over these agencies and as such has no way of regulating what is done with the information once it is provided.
The MAJDC Law Blog 