A bill now in the House would allow nine of the Berlin psychiatric hospital’s 25 beds to be relicensed next year as a residential facility for patients involved in the criminal justice system.
Thirty-eight Vermont school districts and supervisory unions are under “targeted monitoring” from the state. Superintendents are pointing fingers at the state Agency of Education.
A day before the crossover deadline, advocacy groups spoke out against a proposal that would require law enforcement officials to be involved in monitoring school threats.
Numerous bills before the Legislature this year have shone a spotlight on the many forms that intimate partner violence, both domestic and sexual, can take.