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Senate advances S.209 to third reading to bar warrantless civil arrests at polling places, schools and health sites
Summary
The Vermont Senate on Feb. 12 amended and ordered third reading of S.209, expanding existing protections against warrantless civil arrests from courthouses to "sensitive locations" including polling places, educational institutions, social service establishments, places of worship and health-care facilities; the roll call to order third reading passed 27–2.
The Vermont Senate on Feb. 12 amended and advanced S.209 to third reading, moving to expand a 2018 protection that barred warrantless civil arrests at courthouses to an explicit list of other "sensitive locations." The roll call to order third reading passed 27–2.
Senator Vychoski, reporting for the Senate Committee on Judiciary, told colleagues the bill adds a narrow list of sites where people should feel safe from warrantless civil arrests. "The locations that we have added to this list are polling places, educational institutions, social service establishments ... a place of worship, and then the bill goes on to identify ... health care…
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