MONTPELIER What started as a bill that would have banished the legal defense of qualified immunity for police officers in Vermont has been gutted. Now, the bill authorizes nothing more than a study of the issue.Although proponents asserted a.
The Vermont Senate’s bill to end qualified immunity for police officers remains alive, albeit watered down, after facing what lawmakers and advocates call a “unified front” of opposition from law enforcement agencies and municipalities.Just in time to.