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Rep. Karen Dolan presents bill to standardize post-charge restorative justice statewide
Summary
Representative Karen Dolan told the House Corrections and Institutions Committee she is advancing statutory language from a work group to create consistent post-charge restorative justice procedures and funding across Vermont’s community justice centers; the committee asked for DOC and judge input and to schedule testimony.
Representative Karen Dolan told the House Corrections and Institutions Committee on Jan. 8 that H540 would implement recommendations from a working group to standardize post-charge restorative justice across the state.
Dolan said the work group — which produced a report in November and included Judge Zoney, a Department of Corrections representative and multiple community-justice-center stakeholders — drafted language intended to align statutes with current practice. "A restorative justice process can be used at any point in any…
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