News & Commentary

We're hosting a virtual forum with candidates in contested races for state's attorney on Thursday, July 28th at 6pm.

Good public policy requires good information. Without data, our criminal legal system cannot address persistent racial disparities and other negative outcomes.

In June, the ACLU invited each state's attorney candidate to answer fifteen questions about their positions on criminal justice issues. Did the candidate(s) in your county respond?

The impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health will be devastating. Here’s what comes next.

We know that investing in people and communities over policing and prisons makes our state safer and more equitable. Find our full-page ad in Seven Days.

Juneteenth, short for June nineteenth, commemorates the day when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned of their freedom in 1865 - a full two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

Elected prosecutors have a major role to play in holding police accountable for misconduct. That can include pressing criminal charges when police abuse their power and violate civil rights – something prosecutors rarely elect to do.

Every community should have meaningful oversight of their police department. We wrote a letter with the Rutland Area NAACP urging the Bennington Select Board to empower their civilian oversight board to review specific police misconduct complaints.

While Vermont continued to adopt smarter criminal justice policies this year, we have also seen a shockingly inadequate response to the opioid crisis, and a failure to enact any meaningful police reforms.