The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
003
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ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OR STALKING
(Cite as: 15 V.S.A. § 1150)
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§ 1150. Findings and intent
(a) The General Assembly finds that:
(1) persons attempting to escape from actual or threatened domestic violence, sexual assault,
stalking, and human trafficking frequently establish new addresses in order to prevent
their assailants or probable assailants from finding them; and
(2) persons who provide reproductive health care services or gender- affirming health
care services, persons who assist others in obtaining reproductive health care services
or gender-affirming health care services, and persons who exercise their legal right
to obtain reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services
in this State may be harassed, intimidated, or threatened because of their legally
protected health care activity.
(b) It is the purpose of this subchapter to:
(1) enable State and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without
disclosing the location of persons identified in subsection (a) of this section;
(2) promote interagency cooperation with the Secretary of State in providing address confidentiality
for persons identified in subsection (a) of this section; and
(3) enable State and local agencies and school districts to accept a Program participant’s
use of an address, and local agencies to accept an address, designated by the Secretary
of State as a substitute mailing address. (Added 1999, No. 134 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2001; amended 2023, No. 14, § 8, eff. May 10, 2023.)