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Neal v. Fairfax County Police Department — personal-information ruling (2018)

295 Va. 334, 812 S.E.2d 444 (2018). Contextual license-plate images, time and location were personal information under the then-effective Data Act. The Court remanded the separate information-system issue; this was not a final prohibition on plate-reader use.

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Virginia state agencies
Document date
April 26, 2018
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Supreme Court of Virginia
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Virginia state agencies

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Official opinion, Record 170247, pp. 8–14. Read with the 2020 appeal, which reversed the later injunction on the developed record. These decisions interpret the then-effective Data Act; current definitions and exclusions must be matched to actual system facts.

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