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Witnesses tell Judiciary Committee Vermont pretrial supervision pilot enrolled very few people despite $1.5M committed
Summary
An invited witness told the House Judiciary Committee Feb. 13 that about $1.5 million was committed to a pretrial supervision program but the statewide enrollment was in single digits; the committee discussed pilot practices, on-site courthouse liaisons, and staffing proposals to improve uptake.
An invited witness told the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 13 that Vermont's pretrial supervision pilot enrolled only a handful of people despite roughly $1,500,000 in carry-forward or committed funding, prompting lawmakers to question how to make the program more useful and scalable.
The witness, identified in the transcript as Unidentified Speaker 5, said the pilot’s design did not fit Vermont’s system and reported that 'there's been committed about $1,500,000, and we've dealt with, you know, 8 people' during the program's run. The witness said the program as originally conceived was unlikely to succeed statewide because of…
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