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Lawmakers press Vermont digital services chief on who receives, resells driver and criminal records
Summary
At a May 15 hearing, the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee questioned Agency of Digital Services Secretary Denise Riley Hughes about state data sharing and sales, focusing on driver-history and limited criminal-history records that flow through the state's web portal and are accessed by third parties under federal and state law.
Members of the Vermont House Committee on Energy and Digital Infrastructure pressed Denise Riley Hughes, secretary of the Agency of Digital Services (ADS) and state chief information officer, on May 15 about how the state shares and, in some cases, receives revenue for Vermonters’ driver-history and limited criminal-history records.
The committee focused on two primary channels by which personally identifying records are distributed: driver history records governed by the federal Driver Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) and limited criminal-history files used for background checks. ADS and the Department of Motor Vehicles route many such transactions through the state's web portal and vendor-hosted services; ADS told the committee the state pays about $3,600,000 annually for the web interface and that “it is less than 2% of that number that comes from a 2 processes that are actually required by law,” referring to revenue associated with those legally required disclosures.
Why it matters: committee members said aggregated, bulk access and…
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