U.S. Virgin Islands · Public Records Act

The U.S. Virgin Islands Public Records Act — a right to examine and copy, with no statutory clock

AccessPoint manages public-records requests under 3 V.I.C. § 881 et seq. — the right of citizens of the Territory to examine and copy public records, the § 881(g) confidential categories, and court enforcement by mandamus or injunction — pre-configured for the Virgin Islands with an operational ten-business-day target where the Act sets none, and running inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant.

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U.S. Virgin Islands at a glance

Response standard
No statutory deadline — records are open to examination and copying by citizens of the Territory; AccessPoint applies a ten-business-day operational target you can tune
Enforcement
No administrative appeal — mandamus or injunction in court to compel access
Exemptions
The § 881(g) confidential categories — student records, medical records, trade secrets, attorney work product, and police investigative reports
Charges
Inspection is free; the requester pays the expense of copying
Oversight
Virgin Islands courts; refusal of access in violation of the Act is a misdemeanor carrying a $100 fine
Languages
English

Built for U.S. Virgin Islands

One platform for the whole access-and-privacy mandate, pre-configured for this regime and running in your own Microsoft 365 tenant.

Public Records Act lifecycle

Intake to release under 3 V.I.C. § 881 et seq. — the request logged on arrival, the search tasked, any § 881(g) category cited, and examination or copies — all on Microsoft 365.

Eligibility on the record

The Act grants the right to examine and copy to citizens of the Territory. AccessPoint records how eligibility was determined on each request so the standard is applied the same way every time — and the record shows it.

A clock the Act does not set

The Virgin Islands Public Records Act attaches no deadline to the duty to produce. AccessPoint supplies one — a ten-business-day operational target, configurable to your own service standard — and tracks every request against it so a court sees a process rather than an absence of one.

Redaction by category

Apply the § 881(g) confidential categories line by line on a colour-coded, audit-trailed redaction record — each redaction tied to the category it relies on.

Copying at the requester's expense

Examination is free; the requester bears the expense of copies. AccessPoint computes the charge and keeps the calculation on the file.

In your own tenant

Every request and record stays inside your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant — no third-party cloud, no cross-border transfers, and no per-user fees.

A right without a clock

The Virgin Islands says who may ask — and not when they must be answered.

Two things set 3 V.I.C. § 881 apart. First, the right it grants belongs to citizens of the Territory: the statute's own words gate examination and copying on territorial citizenship, a restriction almost no other U.S. public records law imposes. Second, it attaches no deadline to the duty — no business-day count, no extension mechanism, no deemed denial. What remains is a right enforced by mandamus or injunction and a $100 misdemeanor for an official who refuses access. In practice that puts the weight on the custodian's own record: how eligibility was determined and applied evenly, when the request arrived, when the search began, which § 881(g) category justified any withholding, and when copies went out. AccessPoint supplies the discipline the statute leaves open — a ten-business-day operational target, applied consistently and documented — so a court asked to compel access sees a process, not an absence of one.

Eligibility, applied evenly The citizen-of-the-Territory standard, recorded on every request.
A target where the Act has none Ten business days by default, tuned to your own service standard.
§ 881(g), cited on each withholding Five confidential categories, carried onto the redaction.

Configured out of the box

Installing the us-vi-pra jurisdiction pack seeds your tenant with everything this regime needs — a starting point you can adjust, not a lock-in.

Pack content last reviewed: 2026-09-03

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  • The Virgin Islands Public Records Act (3 V.I.C. § 881 et seq.) as the legal-authority and citation spine
  • The Virgin Islands government-holiday calendar and a configurable ten-business-day operational target where the Act sets no deadline
  • The § 881(g) confidential categories — student records, medical records, trade secrets, attorney work product, and police investigative reports — colour-coded for redaction
  • Requester-eligibility recording, so the citizen-of-the-Territory standard is applied and documented the same way on every request
  • Copying charges at the requester's expense, itemized
  • Virgin Islands timeliness tracking against the operational target, with escalation before it lapses
  • The court record — the timestamped trail that answers a mandamus or injunction petition
  • Public Records Act correspondence templates with statutory wording
A jurisdiction pack's detail panel in AccessPoint settings, showing the pack description, version, what's new, and the checklist of items it imports: legal authorities, calendars, request statuses, request types, extension reasons, requestor categories and consultation types Click to enlarge
What a pack looks like in Settings (the Ontario municipal pack shown): the description, the version and what changed in it, and every item it imports with its statutory basis. Anything you have customized is never overwritten on update.

U.S. Virgin Islands Questions

Is there a response deadline under the Virgin Islands Public Records Act?
No. The Act grants a right to examine and copy public records but attaches no statutory deadline, extension mechanism, or deemed denial. AccessPoint applies a ten-business-day operational target by default, which you can tune to your own service standard, and tracks every request against it so the file shows a consistent process.

Who may request records in the Virgin Islands?
The statute grants the right to examine and copy public records to citizens of the Territory — a residency-based restriction almost no other U.S. public records law imposes. AccessPoint records how eligibility was determined on each request so the standard is applied evenly and the decision is documented.

How is the Act enforced?
Through the courts. A citizen refused access may seek a writ of mandamus or an injunction to compel examination and copying, and an official who refuses access in violation of the Act commits a misdemeanor punishable by a $100 fine. There is no records commission or ombudsman. AccessPoint's timestamped trail — receipt, search, category cited, release — is the record a court would review.

Where does data reside?
Entirely within your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant. Requests, documents, and audit history never leave your control — no third-party cloud, no vendor access, and no cross-border data transfers.

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Flat annual pricing, published in full. Every feature in every size — access requests, privacy impact assessments, breach response, complaints, video & audio redaction, and AI Assist. No per-user or per-module fees.

  • Under 500 employees$2,990/yr
  • 500–2,000 employees$7,990/yr
  • Over 2,000 employees$14,990/yr

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