The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 28 V.S.A. § 104)
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§ 104. Notification of community placements
(a) The Department shall provide notice when appropriate and at the Department’s sole
discretion to affected State, county, and local criminal justice entities and to local
legislative bodies for the purposes of permitting public input and enhancing offender
reintegration into the community whenever an offender is released under furlough after
serving a sentence of incarceration in a correctional facility. The notice may include
the offender’s name and any aliases, a recent photograph and physical description,
community placement address, criminal history, current offense or offenses, and home
address, plus a description and license number of any motor vehicle used by the offender,
and the name, address, and telephone number of the correctional entity supervising
the offender.
(b) The Department shall provide notice to affected State, county, and local criminal
justice entities and to local legislative bodies for the purposes of permitting public
input and enhancing offender reintegration into the community, at the point at which
the Department has made arrangements to house in any apartment, duplex, or other kind
of housing three or more offenders. If the housing concerned was not previously used
to house offenders, such notice shall be given at least 15 days prior to placing any
offender in such housing. If the housing concerned had previously housed one or two
offenders only, such notice shall be given at least 15 days prior to placing a third
offender in such housing.
(c) The Commissioner shall not implement this section until rules for doing so have been
adopted. Such rules shall be adopted not later than September 1, 1999 through use
of emergency rule-making procedures, if necessary.
(d) [Repealed.]
(e) The Commissioner of Corrections shall annually, by January 15, report to the House
Committee on Corrections and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Institutions
on the implementation of this section during the previous 12 months. (Added 1999, No. 29, § 56, eff. May 19, 1999; amended 1999, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 69, eff. May 24, 2000; 2011, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 22, eff. May 14, 2012.)