The 2025 bill makes some improvements, too. No one will be charged for filing a sealing petition or an expungement petition. Probation violations and failures to appear on a charge will be sealed along with the underlying charge. 8/16
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The governor may make some suggested changes, but he’s likely to sign the 2025 legislation because if he doesn’t, the 2021 law—with all its expanded eligibility and procedural problems—would go into effect July 1. 9/16
While HB 2724 as introduced would have regulated this technology, it did not do so sufficiently to justify another part of the bill that would have expanded ALPRs to 60,000 miles of state highways. 11/16
For 3 years we @justicefwdva.bsky.social pushed to eliminate this proposed expansion and this year, the General Assembly agreed. The revised bill reduces the data retention period from 30 days to 21—we advocated for 7 days—and eliminates expansion to state highways. 12/16
The governor should sign this bill. If he doesn’t, Virginia law enforcement will continue to use unregulated ALPRs to track Virginia drivers, and share that data with other states and the federal government. This is an unacceptable outcome. 13/16
However, the governor can also make changes. Law enforcement have advocated to push the 21-day retention period in the bill back to 30 days, and to include the expansion to state highways. Either of these changes would be unacceptable. 14/16
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