Vermont § 2053 - Cooperation with other agencies

§ 2053. Cooperation with other agencies

• (a) The Center shall cooperate with other State departments and agencies, municipal police
  departments, sheriffs, and other law enforcement officers in this State and with federal
  and international law enforcement agencies to develop and carry on a uniform and complete
  State, interstate, national, and international system of records of commission of
  crimes and information. (b)(1) All State departments and agencies, municipal police departments, sheriffs, and other
  law enforcement officers shall cooperate with and assist the Center in the establishment
  of a complete and uniform system of records relating to the commission of crimes,
  arrests, convictions, imprisonment, probation, parole, fingerprints, photographs,
  stolen property, and other matters relating to the identification and records of persons
  who have or who are alleged to have committed a crime, or who are missing persons,
  or who are fugitives from justice. (2) In order to meet the requirements of subdivision (1) of this subsection, the Center,
  in consultation with the Vermont Crime Research Group, statewide racial justice groups,
  and statewide groups representing individuals with lived experience of a mental health
  condition or psychiatric disability, shall establish and provide training on a uniform
  list of definitions to be used in entering data into a law enforcement agency’s system
  of records, and every law enforcement officer shall use those definitions when entering
  data into his or her agency’s system. (Added 1969, No. 290 (Adj. Sess.), § 10; amended 2019, No. 166 (Adj. Sess.), § 20, eff. Oct. 1, 2020.)