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Backed by 70% Growth in Vermont Supporters, State’s Premier Civil Liberties Organization Is Doubling Down in 2021
Vermont Business Magazine The ACLU of Vermont is announcing six new staff positions in its legal, advocacy, and communications programs, including four new hires as well as the promotion of the organization’s two Senior Staff Attorneys, Lia Ernst and Jay Diaz, to the roles of Legal Director and General Counsel, respectively. The recent staff expansion is backed by a 70% increase in Vermont-based supporters over the past year, and will bring the number of full-time ACLU of Vermont staff to thirteen people, up from five in 2017.
BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) Advocates, including the local branch of the NAACP and the ACLU, criticized how leaders in Bennington are proposing to create a police oversight board.
BENNINGTON Officials of the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont have delivered some blistering criticism of a proposal by a citizen task force to create a
Misuse of Medicaid Reinvestment Funds inconsistent with state law, detracts from essential programs and support services.
Vermont Business MagazineIn a letter sent to the Agency of Education (AOE) today, the ACLU and the Disability Law Project of Vermont Legal Aid are calling for an end to funding school police with Medicaid reimbursements. With assistance from the Police Out of Schools Coalition and Neighbors for a Safer St. Albans, the groups recently learned that AOE has allowed at least two Vermont school systems – Maple Run Unified School District in St Albans and North Country Supervisory Union – to use Medicaid funds to pay for school cops, an apparent violation of state law.