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Public Safety describes multiagency PSET to help communities address housing, substance use and disorder

House Human Services · January 31, 2026
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Summary

Dan Bateson, deputy commissioner of public safety, described the Public Safety Enhancement Team (PSET), a multiagency effort working with seven to nine communities to coordinate state resources, improve data sharing, and support local 'situation tables' and pilots such as EMS buprenorphine administration.

Dan Bateson, deputy commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Safety, briefed the House Human Services committee on the Public Safety Enhancement Team (PSET), which the department said grew from COVID response work and now operates in seven (the presentation noted nine communities in later remarks) localities.

Bateson described PSET as a cross‑agency effort that brings state actors into local stakeholder groups to remove barriers and…

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