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It occurred to me back in May that the list of Board-Approved Supervisors on the Virginia Board of Social Work (VBSW) website was public information. So, I sent a Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Board asking for a copy of the entire list of Board-Approved Supervisors.  The list is stored electronically so I asked for an electronic copy.  They sent it to  me.  The VBSW is a public body.  That is important because the Virginia FOIA states: 

By enacting this chapter, the General Assembly ensures the people of the Commonwealth ready access to public records in the custody of a public body or its officers and employees, and free entry to meetings of public bodies wherein the business of the people is being conducted. The affairs of government are not intended to be conducted in an atmosphere of secrecy since at all times the public is to be the beneficiary of any action taken at any level of government. Unless a public body or its officers or employees specifically elect to exercise an exemption provided by this chapter or any other statute, every meeting shall be open to the public and all public records shall be available for inspection and copying upon request. All public records and meetings shall be presumed open, unless an exemption is properly invoked.

..Public body" means any legislative body, authority, board, bureau, commission, district or agency of the Commonwealth....

...G. Public records maintained by a public body in an electronic data processing system, computer database, or any other structured collection of data shall be made available to a requester...

 § 2.2-3700. Short title; policy-A. This chapter may be cited as "The Virginia Freedom of Information Act." 

 When I received the list of Board-Approved Supervisors I noticed that it was formatted by the license number of the Supervisor.  I am pretty sure that most LCSWs could not tell you the number on their license much less would anyone else know their number.   Now me, I know my LCSW license number.  The format of the license number has 10 digits.  The first 4 digits identify the health  regulatory board that issued the license.  For the Board of Social Work the number is 0904.  Starting from the right is your license number.  We acquired social work licensing in 1976.  I received my license in 1979.  My number is 266.  To make 10 digits they fill the other 3 digits with zeros.  So, my number is 0904000266. All I need to remember is 266.  But, from a practical standpoint I did not see the list as very helpful if it was formatted by license number.  I downloaded the list as and Excel spreadsheet and then made a copy that was alphabetical by last name of the supervisor and another copy that was alphabetical by city.  I saved all 3 list as Dropbox shared documents.  The URL hyperlinks are below:

VBSW BOARD-APPROVED SUPERVISOR LIST BY LICENSE NUMBRER:

VBSW BOARD-APPROVED SUPERVISOR LIST ALPHABETICAL BY LAST NAME OF SUPERVISOR

VBSW BOARD-APPROVED SUPERVISOR LIST ABPHABETICAL BY CITY OF SUPERVISOR

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