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Victims' services director urges automatic parole-notification language in H.559
Summary
Jennifer Pullman, executive director of the Center for Crime Victim Services, told the Senate Institutions committee H.559 should import the automatic-notification language in 28 V.S.A. §507 into 13 V.S.A. §5305 so victims receive parole-hearing information unless they waive it in writing.
Jennifer Pullman, executive director of the Center for Crime Victim Services, urged the Senate Institutions committee on April 2 to amend H.559 so that victim-notification rights in Title 13 mirror the automatic-notification language already in Title 28.
Pullman told the committee she chaired the victim-notification task force created under Act 64 and that the group unanimously recommended copying the language in 28 V.S.A. §507 into 13 V.S.A. §5305. "What stuck out for us is that in Title 28, that's an automatic right to get that information unless a victim has waived that right in writing," she said. By contrast, she said, the Title 13 provision only operates if a victim requests the right.
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