Local Links
Virginia Beach Police Department
The official home page of the law enforcement agency for the Safest City in the United States .
Hampton Roads Crime Solvers is a community involvement program to help stop crime in its tracks. Crime Solvers' reason for existing is to gather the facts that law enforcement agencies need to solve unsolved crimes.
This page contains helpful information concerning the Virginia Beach Circuit Court, General District Court, and Juvenile & Domestic Relations District Court. All three Courts are located in the Virginia Beach Judicial Center , 2425 Nimmo Parkway , Virginia Beach , Virginia 23456 .
State and Regional Links
Users will find a wide array of legislative information contained in the Virginia General Assembly home pages. Included is general information about the legislative process and its participants as well as the full text, summaries, status history of bills and resolutions and schedules of activity. Full text searching is also available for the Code of Virginia, Virginia Administrative Code and bills and resolutions. Several legislative agencies provide information about their organizations and topics of interest related to their function. Hot-links to other state legislative information systems on the internet are also available.
The home page features links to many state offices and agencies.
Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia
The Attorney General is the chief executive officer of the Department of Law. He represents the interests of the State in all civil cases to which the Commonwealth or any of its agencies is a party, and in criminal appeals before the Virginia Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of Virginia . In cases involving federal law, he represents the State's interests before federal courts.
The Virginia State Bar (VSB) was created in 1938 by the General Assembly as an administrative agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The creation of the agency unified Virginia 's lawyers in a mandatory State Bar to provide for the regulation of lawyers practicing in the Commonwealth. Since that time, Virginia State Bar activities have grown to support a broad mission which includes efforts to regulate, improve, and educate members of the legal profession; and to promote the administration of justice and quality of legal services provided to Virginians.
Virginia State Courts Home Page
This site is an excellent resource for obtaining overview of the justice system in Virginia . The Virginia judicial system is comprised of the Supreme Court, a Court of Appeals, circuit courts in thirty-one judicial circuits, general district and juvenile and domestic relations district courts in thirty-two districts, and magistrates in offices in thirty-two districts. Three advisory/administrative bodies have been created by the legislature to aid in the operation of the court system: the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, the Judicial Council, and the Committee on District Courts.
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
The opinions of the Fourth Circuit since January 1995 are brought to you by Emory University School of Law Library's Courts Publishing Project (CPP), in cooperation with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. All cases are in full text on the Web, or can be downloaded in RTF format.
Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Services Council
The Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Services Council (Council) is the Virginia state agency responsible for providing training, education and services for Virginia’s prosecutors. The 120 elected Commonwealth’s Attorneys and their approximately 545 Assistants statewide depend upon Council sponsored training programs to meet their annual mandatory continuing legal education requirements (MCLE) as established by the Virginia State Bar.
National Links
Georgia State University College of Law Metaindex of Law Resources
An excellent metaindex of searchable legal indexes on the World Wide Web. Only specifically legal indexes in the U.S. are included. Please note that many of the search tools here have additional search options available and that to derive full benefit from them you should visit the original sites directly. This page simply links to search tools at other sites. The search results returned from each site vary in quality depending on the search tool in use.
National Criminal Justice Service Information Center
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world, providing services to an international community of policymakers and professionals. NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs: the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the OJP Program Offices. It also supports the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
National District Attorneys Association
Their home page and research affiliate, The American Prosecutors Research Institute. The NDAA is the largest professional association of prosecuting attorneys in the United States .
National College of District Attorneys
Now headquartered at the University of South Carolina Law School, the National College of District Attorneys was created in 1970 to provide continuing legal education and training for prosecuting attorneys through programs specifically tailored to meet their needs. Sponsored by the National District Attorneys Association, the American College of Trial Lawyers, and the American Bar Association, there was no institution in existence that was devoted exclusively to providing continuing education to the nation's prosecutors. In fact, the National College of District Attorneys is still the only institution devoted exclusively to training prosecutors. The goal of the National College of District Attorneys' training is to help prosecutors fulfill their responsibilities efficiently, effectively and ethically. Through national programs the National College introduces these attorneys to innovations and developments in the classroom rather than being confronted with them in the courtroom.
The law catalog on the Internet. It speeds research by arranging all legal and government indexes on the 'net into a single, simple, intuitive metaindex. Web site loads rather slowly but contains some excellent resources.
A website featuring a categorized index of 3100 select web sites in 238 nations, islands, and territories, as well as more than 850 locally stored web pages and other files. This site was established to serve as a comprehensive resource of the information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession, with an emphasis on the United States of America . Designed for everyone, lay persons and legal scholars alike, it is quality controlled to include only the most substantive legal resources online.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The FBI's Office of Public and Congressional Affairs presents a broad selection of information regarding the Bureau's investigations, programs, law enforcement services, accomplishments, and history.
As the largest law firm in the Nation, the Department of Justice serves as counsel for its citizens.
The federal courts' agency for research and continuing education. Congress established it by statute in 1967 as a separate organization within the federal judicial system at the request of the Judicial Conference of the United States (see 28 U.S.C. §§ 620-629). Its basic policies are determined by an eight-member Board, chaired ex officio by the Chief Justice of the United States .
Police Officer Internet Directory
Resource to easily navigate the police, law enforcement and criminal justice related sites on the internet. Subdirectories include The Complete Directory of Law Enforcement Agencies, The Complete Directory of Police Officer's Home Pages, The Police Officer's Criminal Justice Resource Directory, and more, including police products and services, police mail lists, police organizations and associations, and still more.
| Contact Information: |
| Judicial |
| 2425 Nimmo Pkwy. |
| Judicial Center, Bldg. 10B |
| Virginia Beach, VA 23456 |
| Direct: (757) 385-4401 |
| OCAAdmin@vbgov.com |
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