This dataset contains the Virginia Parole Board’s monthly decisions as required by Virginia Code 53.1-136. In order to ensure proper notifications are made as required by Virginia Code, decisions are not posted until the end of the following month.

This asset has been assigned to the Tier 0 data classification tier according to the Commonwealth Data Trust. Tier 0 classifies a data resource as information that is neither sensitive nor proprietary, and intended for public access.

This data is collected from The Gun Violence Archive (GVA) which is an online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 7,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence. GVA is an independent data collection and research group with no affiliation with any advocacy organization.