
A draft bill would make more crimes eligible to be cleared from a person’s record, but questions remain over who would still have access to the information and under what circumstances.
A draft bill would make more crimes eligible to be cleared from a person’s record, but questions remain over who would still have access to the information and under what circumstances.
Legislation would prevent police from releasing arrest information about people under the age of age 19 in most instances, including motor vehicle fatalities.
The legislation passed the Senate unanimously earlier this year but has run into a roadblock from the Scott administration.
House sponsor Maxine Grad calls the legislation an ‘important economic and workforce-development reform’ because it could remove barriers to employment for Vermont’s ex-convicts.