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MONTPELIER â The Vermont court system plans to use nearly $13.6 million in federal money to ease a significant backlog of cases caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Court Administrator Patricia Gabel said eliminating the backlog of cases, particularly jury trials, requires an investment in personnel and technology.
She presented the plan on Wednesday to the Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee.
Select courthouses have been identified to start holding trials in May. Gabel's plan calls for using the money from the American Rescue Plan Act over three-and-a-half-years.
Aside from jury trials, the courts have managed to handle casework through the pandemic, but there is a sense that when things open up the workload in the courts will increase, The Caledonian Record reported.