Witnesses tell Judiciary panel Vermont’s criminal-history systems cannot selectively release sealed records under S.12

Jeffrey Walton, director of the Vermont Crime Information Center, told the House Judiciary Committee that expunged records are removed from the state system while sealed records remain in place but flagged — and that neither VCIC nor the Valcour records system is currently built to hold sealed records offline while permitting court‑approved, on‑demand releases.