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Scott signs executive orders streamlining public safety department, Act 250...
Gov. Phil Scott signs four executive orders on the day of his inauguration in January 2017. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger Gov. Phil Scott signed executive orders Thursday that would place Vermont’s...
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Donovan refiling second case dismissed by Chittenden County state’s attorney
Attorney General TJ Donovan has refiled an attempted murder case against Veronica Lewis, accused of shooting Darryl Montague in 2015. Photo by Kit Norton/VTDigger Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan...
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Neighbor seeks stalking order against Slate Ridge owner
Daniel Banyai speaks to a group at Slate Ridge in Pawlet. Facebook photo A judge will soon decide whether to grant a protective order to a neighbor of Slate Ridge, an unpermitted tactical training...
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Vermont House considers reforms to troubled women’s prison
The Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger More than a year after allegations emerged of sexual misconduct at the Chittenden Regional...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: Fireworks seller runs into permitting problem
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. Green Mountain Fireworks v. Colchester, 2020 VT 64 Unpopular take: I don’t especially like fireworks. I never really...
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Family questions law enforcement response to Statehouse altercation between...
A 15-year-old girl was knocked to the ground during a Trump rally on the Statehouse steps in December. At a rally for President Donald Trump last month on the steps of the Vermont Statehouse, a...
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Judge grants neighbor stalking order against Daniel Banyai
A screenshot from a video on the Slate Ridge Facebook page shows bullet holes in the door of a vehicle bearing the Hulett name. The video has since been taken down. A Rutland Superior Court judge has...
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Slashing death in broad daylight in Bennington leads to first-degree murder...
Darren Pronto, 32, of Pownal is charged with first-degree murder in Bennington on Monday, Jan. 18. Police photo. A Pownal man is facing a murder charge in a knife attack and fatal slashing of a woman...
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Brattleboro to freeze and refocus its police diversity training budget
Brattleboro Police Department cruisers at Black Mountain Road headquarters. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger BRATTLEBORO — In a split decision, the Brattleboro Selectboard has voted to freeze its...
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Neighbors say they warned police of the danger that murder suspect posed
A neighbor of Darren Pronto said he damaged her family’s garage and cut the window screens off of their home. When they heard a woman had been killed in a knife attack in downtown Bennington this...
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Slate Ridge temporarily ordered to stop operating training facility
Videos on the Slate Ridge Facebook page show visitors practicing military and law enforcement-style scenarios. The town of West Pawlet has argued in court that the facility has been operating without...
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Wrong-way driver argues five murder convictions should be reversed
Steven Bourgoin listens as he is sentenced in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington on Aug. 26, 2019. Bourgoin was convicted in the deaths of five teenagers in a crash on I-89 in Williston in October...
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Report: People of color face harassment and threats in elections, health...
Xusana Davis, Vermont’s executive director of racial equity, appeared alongside Rep. Peter Welch in June at a press conference on the federal Justice in Policing Act. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger...
View ArticleSCOV Law Blog: De facto parenting statute recognizes complicated family...
Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Elizabeth Kruska. Peralta v. Brannan, 2020 VT 100 Vermont has a fairly new statute that is often referred to as the de facto parentage statute....
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Governor: Slate Ridge injunction is ‘good news’ for neighbors
A road sign indicates the entrance to Slate Ridge, a paramilitary training facility in West Pawlet. Courtesy photo Gov. Phil Scott said Friday it’s “good news” for its neighbors that a judge approved...
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WCAX fights subpoena for interview footage, citing media shield law
Part of the WCAX interview aired Dec. 10. The news department of Vermont television station WCAX is fighting a subpoena from prosecutors in Chittenden County, arguing that a demand for unaired footage...
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Richmond is among smaller Vermont towns taking new steps on police oversight
A Migrant Justice member holds up a sign while walking toward the Hannaford Supermarket on North Avenue in Burlington in a pre-pandemic photo from 2019. Photo by Jacob Dawson/VTDigger For the last...
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State gives a sliver of transparency to state trooper discipline cases
The Vermont State Police color guard advances the colors at the annual state police awards ceremony at the Statehouse on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger One trooper didn’t...
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Federal prosecutors take over Stowe arson case; suspect held in jail
Fire damage on the back side of 638 S. Main St. in Stowe, which housed half a dozen businesses. Authorities allege the fire was set intentionally. Police photo BURLINGTON — A Stowe man charged in...
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Burlington City Council delays action on police ‘staffing crisis’
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger, left, and acting Police Chief Jon Murad are shown at a briefing last January. File photo by Jacob Dawson/VTDigger The Burlington City Council Monday night postponed...
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