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State prosecutors cite 22,000 pending cases and point to accountability dockets as relief
Summary
Department of State's Attorneys and Sheriffs told the Senate Judiciary committee that Vermont has roughly 22,000 pending cases (19,000 criminal), highlighted a successful accountability‑docket pilot that cleared about 500 of 890 dockets, and urged legislative and administrative steps including scheduling reforms and modest staffing increases to reduce backlog.
The Department of State's Attorneys and Sheriffs told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 16 that Vermont continues to carry a large pending caseload and urged the Legislature to expand successful accountability‑docket practices and address transport and staffing bottlenecks.
Tim Leers Dumont, executive director of the Department of State's Attorneys and Sheriffs, said the department still has “about 22,000 pending cases in our system, of which 19,000 are criminal cases,” and described recent clearance rates that exceeded 100 percent in snapshots of the past two to three years. He added that the state files roughly “12 to 13,000 cases a year in the criminal system.”
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