Virginia legal term
Qualified individual in Virginia Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Virginia legislative session
In Virginia criminal law, “Qualified individual” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Virginia criminal code.
What does “Qualified individual” mean in Virginia criminal law?
"Qualified individual" means a trained professional or licensed clinician who is not an employee of the local board of social services or licensed child-placing agency that placed the child in a qualified residential treatment program and is not affiliated with any placement setting in which children are placed by such local board of social services or licensed child-placing agency. (Va. Code Ann. § 16.1-228)
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