The
federal government has introduced its Secure Communities immigration
enforcement policy in Vermont, despite the state’s so-called bias-free policing
policy.
Vermont
State Police have blocked off part of the road leading to the home of a missing
St. Johnsbury woman, whose 2-year-old child was found alone in her vehicle a
short distance away.
The Vermont Supreme Court says police records that may be linked to the investigation of a crime are not automatically exempt from
the state’s access to public records law.
The head of the Vermont State Police says the
results of a study found a small racial and ethnic bias in police stops.
Colonel Tom L’Esperance says the information shows the police have to look more
carefully at what they’re doing.
Vermont State Police say it’s no laughing matter that images of a pig
showed up on decals on the side of about 30 of their cruisers, and they say inmates at the Department of Corrections are responsible.
The arrest of two migrant farmworkers during a routine traffic stop has effected a change in the state’s bias-free policing policy, the Governor appointed an advisory panel to look at the state’s investment in UVM and gold fever has struck in Central Vermont, again.
The
controversial arrest earlier this year of two migrant farmworkers led state
police to revise their "bias-free" policing policy. The updated regulations were released Friday.
Vermont State Police say they have recovered a body in Lake Champlain
and they believe it is that of a man who fell out of a boat off
Ferrisburgh and disappeared.
Vermont State Police troopers are looking for an armed police
impersonator who stopped a woman on Route 15 in Morrisville and
assaulted her after ordering her out of her car.