Vermont § 104 - Notification of community placements

§ 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 (d) [Repealed.]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.)