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Chief Superior Judge urges clearer data, flags transfer ‘ping‑pong’ and local discretion in juvenile cases
Summary
Chief Superior Judge Tom Zona told the Vermont House Judiciary Committee the judiciary can produce county counts of juvenile and youthful‑offender cases but lacks some operational metrics, and he urged statutory or procedural changes to end a time‑consuming transfer “ping‑pong” between juvenile and criminal courts.
Chief Superior Judge Tom Zona told the Vermont House Judiciary Committee on the juvenile justice system’s complexity and the limits of available court data, saying judges can provide county breakdowns of pending youthful‑offender and delinquency cases but some operational details are not collected centrally.
Zona said the judiciary can produce statewide and county counts of pending cases and diversion status — he noted one data snapshot was available “as of January 16” — and offered to work with trial court operations to deliver additional, specific data points the committee requests. He also said the courts do not currently collect some metrics, for example whether motions for youthful‑offender treatment were granted without reviewing…
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