Va. Colleges Must Give Applicant Data to State

College officials are nervous about a Virginia law that requires all colleges and universities in the state to submit personal information about their accepted applicants to the state police to be checked against registries of sex offenders.

The law, part of comprehensive sex-offender legislation that passed the state legislature unanimously this year, will require colleges to report to the state police the full names, genders, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers or other

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