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Vermont attorney general asks Senate appropriations committee for four new positions, cites staffing complexity and consumer program wins
Summary
Attorney General Charity Clark told the Senate Appropriations Committee the office is seeking four permanent positions and explained shifts in spending authority, personnel structure and recent consumer-assistance recoveries.
Attorney General Charity Clark on Tuesday asked the Senate Appropriations Committee to approve four new permanent positions for the attorney general’s office and walked lawmakers through the office’s complicated personnel structure and recent enforcement receipts.
Clark told the committee the office is seeking funding for four positions: an appellate assistant attorney general in the appellate unit, a base-funded “big tech” assistant attorney general focused on consumer and data-security cases, an administrator to run the precharge (pre-arrest) program created under Act 180, and a full-time home‑improvement specialist embedded in the Consumer Assistance Program (CAP).
The request is part of the governor’s proposed budget that includes a 6.1% general-fund increase for the attorney…
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