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. § 106)
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§ 106. Systems approach to community supervision of sex offenders
(a) The Department of Corrections shall establish a comprehensive systems approach to
the management of sex offenders, which employs longer and more intensive community
supervision of high-risk sex offenders. To accomplish this, the Department shall
employ probation officers with training in the management of sex offenders sufficient
to provide intensive community supervision and may use polygraph tests and prerelease
and post incarceration treatment to promote rehabilitation.
(b) The Department shall create multidisciplinary case management teams, each involving
as appropriate a probation or parole officer with training in supervision of sex offenders,
a treatment provider, a victim’s advocate, a representative of the Department for
Children and Families, and a forensic polygraph examiner. These professionals shall
collaborate, prioritizing community safety and the protection of former victims, and
shall participate and cooperate in compliance with 13 V.S.A. § 5415 with the local special investigation unit. These teams shall address the specific
treatment and supervision needs of a particular offender to enhance protection of
the public, to assist that offender in reintegrating safely into the community, to
support and protect known victims, and to respond to any new concerns about risk of
reoffense.
(c) The Department of Corrections shall designate and train probation and parole officers
in each district office to supervise sex offenders, to provide consistent and intensive
case management, and to impose and enforce conditions uniquely suited to aiding the
offenders’ reintegration into the community. These officers shall not have a caseload
of more than 45 offenders, except that a mixed caseload shall be managed pursuant
to subdivision 105(d)(5) of this title. (Added 2009, No. 1, § 42.)